From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 19:50:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95E116A41F for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:50:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D69443D64 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:50:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from [213.146.114.24] (helo=reverse-213-146-114-24.cust.kamp-dsl.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKxQS-1Ef0dm0sqM-0002MV; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:50:50 +0100 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:44:00 +0100 (CET) From: "P.U.Kruppa" X-X-Sender: root@www.pukruppa.net To: Luke Dean In-Reply-To: <20051123003158.H1082@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> Message-ID: <20051123214108.B52779@www.pukruppa.net> References: <20051123003158.H1082@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:2446dbdf8275641f979193ced594c629 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel: rl0: watchdog timeout X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:50:53 -0000 On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Luke Dean wrote: > > Since I upgraded to version 6, my server has frozen under heavy network > traffic three times. It ran happily for months on various versions of 5. > Same hardware, same configuration. > There was never anything in /var/log/messages until this last time. This > time I found: > > kernel: rl0: watchdog timeout > > I don't know what it's trying to tell me, and I don't know if it's a cause or > an effect. > > This is 6.0-STABLE as of late Sunday night. i386. rl0 is my WAN-side > interface. vr0 is my internal interface. This machine runs DNS, email, web, > NFS host, and several other services. It uses pf with altq. I have seen this once about two years ago. It went away, after I changed the NIC (realtek aren't high quality anyway). Regards, Uli. > > I don't think the system is panicking. It doesn't reboot. It may be > freezing. It becomes unresponsive on both network interfaces. When the > incident occurs, there's always a lot of simple TCP/IP traffic that's just > passing through the box (not NFS, email, web, or anything the box provides on > its own) and my first response is to hit the reset button to get it going > again. > > What should I look for? > The handbook says to check cables, and they seem fine. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************