From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 17:58:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3A4216A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:58:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.jrv.org (rrcs-sw-24-73-246-106.biz.rr.com [24.73.246.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3BD43D31 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@jrv.org) Received: from jrv.org (zippy.jrv.org [192.168.3.156]) (authenticated bits=0) by dogfood.jrv.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3A0uhpd048321 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 9 Apr 2004 19:56:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from james@jrv.org) Message-ID: <4077464C.1050901@jrv.org> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 19:56:44 -0500 From: "James R. Van Artsalen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Racine References: <32A8B2CB12BFC84D8D11D872C787AA9A015E9AB5@EXCHANGE.forest.maxwell.syr.edu> In-Reply-To: <32A8B2CB12BFC84D8D11D872C787AA9A015E9AB5@EXCHANGE.forest.maxwell.syr.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC related problems on amd64... X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 00:58:22 -0000 Jeff Racine wrote: >Hi. > >I am setting up a dual opteron box, and have experienced problems that I can't seem to track down. I installed 5.2.1 from cd and the problem appeared righ away when I tried to rsync the new hd with my laptop hd, upgraded to current and it is still there. > >The symptoms are that rsync and the amd64-friendly cvsup, when used, appear to crash the nic interface (and it is repeatable). It seems to be some combination of small files and/or disk write activity. However, sftp and ftp appear to work fine (I have to cvsup ports on my laptop then tar and transfer to get ports current). Once crashed, only a reboot appears to cure the problem (ifconfig sk0 xxxx netstat xxx etc. does not work, nor does /etc/netstart). The system has a 3ware escalade sata 8000 series raid controller in raid 1 configuration. > > You might be more specific about the motherboard, model, CPU model, DRAM, etc, disk system configuration and especially what "crash the nic interface" means. I've never had a NIC problem but I use a Tyan S2885 which uses the bge NIC inteface. I don't recall any pattern of bug reports with NICs in the past..