narrowed it down significantly i think. copying large files via the network (note: 100M FD) makes it explode. the network card this is happening on is the 8139 driver. 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.8 loaded eth2: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) board found at 0xdd000000, IRQ 5 eth2: Chip is 'RTL-8139B' eth2: MAC address 00:e0:29:5b:25:54. eth2: Setting full-duplex based on MII #32 link partner ability of 45e1. # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 12869 XT-PIC timer 1: 105 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 917 XT-PIC eth2 7: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster 8: 0 XT-PIC rtc 9: 1 XT-PIC usb-ohci, acpi 10: 787 XT-PIC eth0 11: 23558 XT-PIC BusLogic BT-950 13: 0 XT-PIC fpu 15: 2 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 10) Subsystem: Accton Technology Corporation: Unknown device 1211 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 I/O ports at b400 [size=256] Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] -d -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
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