From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 1 17:43:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E84B16A420; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:43:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk (host-84-9-223-82.bulldogdsl.com [84.9.223.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB3443D46; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:43:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA60BFD066; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:43:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.devrandom.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09416-02; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:43:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.1.177] (unknown [192.168.1.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6388FD06D; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:43:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Chris Howells Organization: K Desktop Environment To: Gleb Smirnoff , Jack Vogel , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:42:06 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <63472.192.168.0.1.1140456976.squirrel@webmail.devrandom.org.uk> <57314.192.168.0.1.1140522671.squirrel@webmail.devrandom.org.uk> <20060226103244.GF55275@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060226103244.GF55275@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603011742.07429.howells@kde.org> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at devrandom.org.uk Cc: Subject: Re: Which motherboards work well with em(4)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:43:19 -0000 On Sunday 26 February 2006 10:32, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:51:11AM -0000, Chris Howells wrote: > C> Oh yes sorry, should have clarified that. Correct, it hangs on receive, > C> consistently -- never ever on transmit. Though the conditions to cause > it C> to hang on rx are sadly somewhat unpredictable. I haven't seen the > problem C> really since before Christmas until recently when I've seen it > quite a C> lot. But then again I am transferring more data around at the > moment due C> to trying to recover from a hard disk failure in the 6.1-pre > machine. > > Can you please try the following, when the card wedges again: > > sysctl dev.dev.em.0.stats=1 > > Then show us the last part of the dmesg output. Sorry for the delay in replying. I think this is it: em0: link state changed to UP em0: Excessive collisions = 0 em0: Symbol errors = 0 em0: Sequence errors = 0 em0: Defer count = 5622 em0: Missed Packets = 0 em0: Receive No Buffers = 0 em0: Receive length errors = 0 em0: Receive errors = 0 em0: Crc errors = 0 em0: Alignment errors = 0 em0: Carrier extension errors = 0 em0: XON Rcvd = 6209 em0: XON Xmtd = 0 em0: XOFF Rcvd = 21561 em0: XOFF Xmtd = 0 em0: Good Packets Rcvd = 1419602 em0: Good Packets Xmtd = 1631954 em0: Adapter hardware address = 0xc17d9924 em0:CTRL = 0x18f00249 em0:RCTL = 0x8002 PS=(0x8402) em0:tx_int_delay = 66, tx_abs_int_delay = 66 em0:rx_int_delay = 0, rx_abs_int_delay = 66 em0: fifo workaround = 0, fifo_reset = 0 em0: hw tdh = 0, hw tdt = 0 em0: Num Tx descriptors avail = 256 em0: Tx Descriptors not avail1 = 0 em0: Tx Descriptors not avail2 = 0 em0: Std mbuf failed = 0 em0: Std mbuf cluster failed = 0 em0: Driver dropped packets = 0 I am starting to become convinced that it is the motherboard though, I have tried the card in a Nforce3 (Asus A8n) and Nforce4 (Asus A8n-SLI) board and been unable to reproduce the problelm Thanks. -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org