Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:26:20 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: em, bge, network problems survey. Message-ID: <20061006182620.GB16605@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1160117675.10606.17.camel@genius.i.cz> References: <45244053.6030706@samsco.org> <20061005200552.GA80162@xor.obsecurity.org> <1160117675.10606.17.camel@genius.i.cz>
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--FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:54:35AM +0200, Michal Mertl wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:14:27PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > > All, > > >=20 > > > I'm seeing some patterns here with all of the network driver problem= =20 > > > reports, but I need more information to help narrow it down further. > > > I ask all of you who are having problems to take a minute to fill > > > out this survey and return it to Kris Kennaway (on cc:) and myself. > > > Thanks. > > >=20 > > > 1. Are you experiencing network hangs and/or "timeout" messages on th= e=20 > > > console? If yes, please provide a _brief_ description of the problem. > >=20 > > OK, next question, to all em users: > >=20 > > If your em device is using a shared interrupt, and you are NOT > > experiencing timeout problems when using this device, please let me > > know. >=20 > I haven't seen any timeout message in long time but I experience frozen > network (and also the already reported panic when doing ifconfig down/up > then). Are these details in a PR? > I have also seen strange problem which may be completely unrelated: When > doing 'find . -ls' on SMB mounted drive - find was spitting the contents > of the drive but never finishes. Network seemed dead but when I > interrupted find with Ctrl-C I got the replies to the pings sent when it > was running (e.g. thousands ms) - this looks like something was > preventing RX to work and the packets were just queued somewhere. I > belive I should be able to easily reproduce it. >=20 > genius# vmstat -i > interrupt total rate > irq0: clk 43784465 1000 > irq1: atkbd0 66248 1 > irq5: pcm0 5877 0 > irq8: rtc 5603682 128 > irq9: acpi0 8820 0 > irq11: fwohci0 em* 205749 4 > irq12: psm0 586848 13 > irq14: ata0 340844 7 > irq15: ata1 61 0 > Total 50602594 1155 >=20 > I don't think I remember debug.mpsafenet tunable being mentioned in the > threads about the problems. It prevents all the problems on my system > (UP non-APIC system), including the SMB issue mentioned above. I suspect both of your problems are some unrelated issue. I'd need root access & a test setup before I can say more though. Kris --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFJp/MWry0BWjoQKURAj0BAKCdnvISxSpIKMJCtoYxh9tT10HPkQCeNKGp JC19ekbXt4M/E4kV8d1rfr0= =iJc5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW--
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