Re: rl(4) is not ready for mpsafenet net enough? (silent reboots)

From: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:40:07 +0100 (BST)
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Andrey Chernov wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:20:46AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
>> FYI, most locking bugs in network interfaces that I've seen don't result
>> in a spontaneous reboot, and that's a somewhat worrying symptom.  Is this
>> something you can easily reproduce in a short period of time, or in
>> particular, using a particular program or system call?  Is there any
>> chance your box has firewire and you can use a firewire debugger to
>> inspect memory?
>
> I can't reproduce it, it happens after few hours running. Perhaps the 
> problem is not in rl(4) and making it GIANT only mask the problem. I 
> have spare hardware to swith to and experiment and I'll see what 
> happens.

If the same problem occurs using a different adapter but identical 
software configuration otherwise, that would be very helpful to know.

Robert N M Watson
Received on Thu Jul 21 2005 - 22:40:37 UTC

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