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Date:      Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:02:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        N <niels@bakker.net>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0 
Message-ID:  <199901240102.RAA53285@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <990124014147.27036A-100000@liquid.tpb.net>

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    Yes, we're working on it in a sub-group.

    Since the panic message is a new one -- it's one I added that never existed
    in -3.x, it is possible that the bug is not related to my VM stuff but
    related to something else going on.

    I've found a number of other bugs in the greater VM system which I am 
    comitting fixes for, *BUT* I don't think any of them are related to this
    particular panic.

    I am also comitting some very strict KASSERT checking to try to catch
    the problem earlier.  Everyone running 4.x kernels should add the following
    options to your kernel config:

	options         INVARIANTS
	options         INVARIANT_SUPPORT


					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

:On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
:
:[..]
:> Oh, one other thing that occurred to me..  Under 4.0-current, I regularly 
:> (ie: within 30 seconds of boot) get if_de tranmitter underflows.  My 
:> console corruption was happening at the instant that de0 was being 
:> configured with ifconfig.  exmh is running to a remote display over that 
:> de0 interface.
:
:Here too... pretty quickly after boot on a SMP machine (current as of Jan
:12) that pushes quite a bit of traffic, the following messages appear:
:
:de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to 96|256)
:de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to 128|512)
:de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to 160|1024)
:
:The card is:
:
:de0: <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> rev 0x22 int a irq 16 on pci0.12.0
:de0: 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.2
:de0: address 00:c0:f0:1f:5d:0d
:de0: enabling Full Duplex 100baseTX port
:
:Actually a Kingston clone, not a real DEC (so 1/5th of the price - but the
:receiver doesn't go audibly *click* when it's autosensing).
:
:So far I've gotten this message once:
:
:de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (switching to store-and-forward mode)
:
:Any harm in them, or can I safely ignore them?  Would it be a good idea to
:raise the TX threshold by default, if only to avoid the messages?
:It's plugged into a Catalyst switch, if it makes any difference...
:
:
:	-- Niels.
:
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