From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 20:19:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1682D1065674 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:19:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from catalin@starcomms.com) Received: from webmail.starcomms.com (webmail.starcomms.com [41.205.191.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FFF98FC16 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:19:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from catalin@starcomms.com) Received: from (webmail.starcomms.com [172.16.2.31]) by webmail.starcomms.com with smtp id 3532_88d5be86_3273_11dd_966a_001143cecab4; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:19:29 +0100 Received: from STA-HQ-S001.starcomms.local ([172.16.2.28]) by webmail.starcomms.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:24:55 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:24:55 +0100 Message-ID: <3A0AA7018522134597ED63B3B794C92A020ECF02@STA-HQ-S001.starcomms.local> In-Reply-To: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: New Kernel with Dell PE2950 Thread-Index: AcjGbnjAanysm6tyTLaxN7XDa/qCEwADNVpg References: <2cd0a0da0806040803g7eae3b2bvfb7fcf7bedd9afb8@mail.gmail.com> <3A0AA7018522134597ED63B3B794C92A020ECE7D@STA-HQ-S001.starcomms.local> From: "Catalin Miclaus" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jun 2008 20:24:55.0997 (UTC) FILETIME=[0D8526D0:01C8C681] Subject: RE: New Kernel with Dell PE2950 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:19:33 -0000 -----Original Message----- From: D Hill [mailto:d.hill@yournetplus.com]=20 Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:06 PM To: Catalin Miclaus Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: RE: New Kernel with Dell PE2950 On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 at 18:44 +0100, catalin@starcomms.com confabulated: > BTW....bce/bge drivers has known issues that leads to 'watchdog timeout' > NIC reset. > I have same some 6-8 servers with your hardware configuration and we > have ordered them with Intel Gigabit cards especially to avoid above > issue. > Use bce/bge NICs for low traffic interfaces if possible. How can I see what you are referring to with the bge interfaces? We have a=20 PE6850 that has two bge interfaces. The server's roll is a spam filter=20 server and processes close to 6.5 million messages per day. However, I don't have the watchdog daemon running. I don't remember exactly at which bandwidth consumption level the watchdog timeout error starts appearing. Somewhere below 100Mbps. You can see it if you enable the server to e-mail you the default daily security report or from /var/log/messages file. Jan 4 08:46:00 lb1 kernel: bge1: watchdog timeout -- resetting Jan 4 08:46:00 lb1 kernel: bge1: link state changed to DOWN Jan 4 08:46:02 lb1 kernel: bge1: link state changed to UP BTW....watchdog is a kernel facility and it is enabled by default. You can run a separate process if you want to control it (man watchdog). Best Regards Catalin Miclaus Network/Security ISP-Data Starcomms Ltd.