Subject: Re: Random lockups
To: NetBSD/cobalt <port-cobalt@NetBSD.org>
From: Kevin Lahey <kml@patheticgeek.net>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 12/11/2003 05:15:50
In message <20031211131524.GA29861@fsr.mw.tu-dresden.de>Andre Schulze writes
>A diskless Indigo2 using the cobalt box as nfs server got NetBSD to
>crash reproducable. But this problem can't be the reason for the
>crashes/lockups because they also occour with samba or even netcat.
>
>Maybe it could be worth trying to use a NIC in the PCI slot instead of
>the onboard tulip chips and look what's happening?
I've also seen very reproducable crashes with ttcp on NetBSD-current.
It looks to me like there were some VM issues with zero-copy TCP on
the Cobalt, but that's just a guess. I never had the time to really
track this down.
Kevin
kml@patheticgeek.net