Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:14:40 -0800 From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: "Clayton Milos" <clay@milos.co.za> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, ke han <ke.han@redstarling.com> Subject: Re: em driver testing Message-ID: <2a41acea0611061614n478efe77y82c0ebc2e1b01e19@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <041201c701f9$37b2aed0$9603a8c0@claylaptop> References: <68011C68-0962-4946-88E1-F36EE7C707DA@redstarling.com> <20061106221219.GA66676@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <041201c701f9$37b2aed0$9603a8c0@claylaptop>
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Well, so run 6.2 BETA3 plus the patch I posted as Patrick mentioned and then report on that. You've got a lot of potential problem areas here, I have no experience with samba on FreeBSD. And that motherboard only has PCI as I recall, yes? Still, it should get rid of the watchdogs unless you have real hardware issues. Good luck, Jack On 11/6/06, Clayton Milos <clay@milos.co.za> wrote: > Hi there > > I am having similar issues. Running 6.1-RELEASE. > > I'm using the box as a samba server with pure-ftpd on it too with 2.5T of > raid storage in it. the box is running the generic MP kernel on a Tyan > Thunder K7 with the latest bios v2.14 and dual AthlonMP's. ECC Reg ram that > passed all tests with memtest. > > When I pull a few concurrent files over samba or if i pull a big file (say > 2-3G) over ftp to my laptop it runs at 30MB/sec but usually locks up the box > with watchdog timeout on the em interface. Usually it pops up with timeouts > on the xl interface at the same time and after a few seconds on the ahc > (onboard adaptec scsi) interfce and I have to hard boot the box to get it > back to life. > > I''ve tried the same box with a 3com 3C996B-T NIC which has a Broadcom > BCM5701TKHB chipset on it. It crashes within minutes with no traffic on the > interface. In fact the interface will accept an IP address but times out > pinging anything on the LAN. > > If a kernel developer would like access to the box to chek it out please > mail me. > > Regards > > Clay > > > > Hello! > > > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:55:50AM +0800, ke han wrote: > > > >> I have a Sun X4100 which uses Intel ethernet. I would like to > >> install amd64 6.2beta3 on this server and put it through some tests. > >> But I have no idea what tests to run or how to run them. > >> Can someone provide some pointers? I am happy to post my findings. > > > > Put some CPU load on the machine, e.g. by running > > > > cd /usr/src > > sh > > while true > > do > > make -j4 buildworld > > done >mk.log > > > > on one terminal and then transfer some data to the system, e.g. > > by fetch(1)ing via FTP from another box connected to the same > > LAN. On all systems I have, there is no need to saturate the > > Gbit-Link. 100 Mbit/s local connection will trigger the problem, too. > > > > If the problem exists on your system, you will see emN - watchdog timeout > > messages on the console and in /var/log/messages, followed by a > > reset of the interface and a short and recoverable, but complete, > > loss of connectivity. A couple of seconds, maybe. This is enough > > to frustrate people, who e.g. run large backup jobs over a single > > TCP connection that takes a couple of hours to complete - the interface > > reset aborts the backup :-/ > > > > I must say that it seems to me, these guys are putting a hell of > > a lot of effort into this problem and "we" are making progress. > > Things look quite good to me for 6.2-RELEASE. > > > > HTH, > > Patrick > > -- > > punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung > > Vorholzstr. 25 Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 > > 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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