Subject: Re: Callout table troubles, maybe? Panic, yes.
To: Donald Lee <donlee_ppc@icompute.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/21/2001 18:27:08
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Donald Lee wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> I'm a little stuck right now.
> 
> I've been trying to find a problem with the Cyclades 8Y (multi-port
> serial) driver, and I thought I was chasing a problem with the usage of
> the callout mechanism in the kernel.  What I've found though, is that
> the panics I am generating happen with or without the Cyclades card.
> 
> To get the system to panic, I have to stress the ethernet and/or networking.
> 
> My technique is to get two ftp streams going to another NetBSD machine
> on my network.  Adding a SCSI copy of a large file seems to speed
> the crash.

Ack! Something is quite broken. Please repost your post to tech-kern, the
kernel innards discussion group.

Thanks!

Bill