From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 27 9:46:30 2002 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 3383C37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:46:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from hivemind.trini0.org (bgp626680bgs.brick201.nj.comcast.net [68.39.132.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A9E843E4A for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:46:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsam@trini0.org) Received: (qmail 33493 invoked by uid 0); 27 Dec 2002 17:46:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO trini0.org) (192.168.0.5) by 192.168.0.2 with SMTP; 27 Dec 2002 17:46:26 -0000 Message-ID: <3E0C91F0.3000102@trini0.org> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:46:24 -0500 From: Gerard Samuel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021213 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, nl, th MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stacey@vickiandstacey.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Network timeouts??? References: <3E0C72A9.9000302@trini0.org> <1041004206.68500.116.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stacey Roberts wrote: >On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 15:32, Gerard Samuel wrote: > > >>Im not really sure when the problem began, but I believe it was after >>upgrading to 4.7-RELEASE-p2. >>2 of the boxes running 4.7-RELEASE-p2 which are also running with Intel >>Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet cards, >>are getting numerous timeouts in the logs. >> >>fxp0: device timeout >> >>When connecting to these boxes, the connections are sluggish, to the >>point where I can type faster, that the command line can display. >>All boxes are connected on a 100Mb network via an SMC EZ-Switch SMC >>6308TX switch. >>The only thing that has changed in months, is software versions. >>The problem seems sporadic. Can't seem to find out how or what is >>causing the problem. >> >>Is/was there a problem with the fxp drivers, or can someone direct me as >>to how one goes about to debug this problem. >> >>Thanks for any info you may provide... >> >> > >Hi Gerard, > If you connect to the box via ssh, then you might want to try using >the "-v" switch to ssh so as to get a more verbose output when >connecting. > >It should display evidence as to where in the connection any delays are >occurring as far as your sluggish connectivity is concerned. > >Do the cards themselves produce any information for you? Post some stats >from the nics as returned from:- > >netstat -in > hivemind# netstat -in Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll fxp0 1500 00:80:29:12:90:b9 366170 27094 426767 31 10 fxp0 1500 192.168.0 192.168.0.2 372504 - 432856 - - lo0 16384 9454 0 9454 0 0 lo0 16384 127 127.0.0.1 3179 - 3179 - - >netstat -s > Its too long. Don't want to offend anyone with a long debug output.... >netstat -m > hivemind# netstat -m 67/896/6144 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): 66 mbufs allocated to data 1 mbufs allocated to packet headers 64/600/1536 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) 1424 Kbytes allocated to network (30% of mb_map in use) 0 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines > >At the least, you could try "bouncing" (ifconfig down / ifconfig up) the >interfaces if the situation degrades dramatically. > True, but the thing is these boxes, don't have keyboards hooked up to them, so when they go down, I have to wait to see if they come up, or I kill the power if Im impatient. I just moved the switch away from the box its next, hoping it need more ventilation, so Ill see how it goes now... > >Hope this helps. > >Stacey > > > -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://dev.trini0.org:81/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message