Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 15:07:41 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: shih@math.jussieu.fr, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappointed-new Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.0.20060408150025.099369a8@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: <20060407121452.GO1784@math.jussieu.fr> References: <20060407121452.GO1784@math.jussieu.fr>
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At 08:14 AM 07/04/2006, Albert Shih wrote:
> The 6-stable is installed on the server on begin of February 2006
>
>Problems :
>
>
>
> bge0 watchdog timeout problems
> bge0 watchdog timeout problems
There have been a number of improvements to the bge driver in late
Feb / early March. I had a busy BIND server that had those errors on
its bge nic which went away by updating to something past March 7th
ie
[tyan-1u]% ident /usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c:
$FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c,v 1.91.2.13 2006/03/04
09:34:48 oleg Exp $
[tyan-1u]%
> Again after some days the .... em0 interface don't work. And this
> time the message on console is
> em0 watchdog timeout problems
>
Are the interface stats clean ? Take a look at the switch port and
make sure there is not some duplex mismatch or flow control issue.
> Now I'm running all interface in polling mode. And...I hope it's
> work...(running from 2 days).
If you are hitting livelock then polling will help on the busy
NICS. When in non polling mode, what sort of load avg were you
seeing spent in system
---Mike
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