From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 08:09:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDE316A401 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 08:09:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@claranet.nl) Received: from mail1-new.vianetworks.nl (mail1-new.vianetworks.nl [212.61.9.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25DF513C469 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 08:09:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@claranet.nl) Received: from [192.168.181.124] (firebox.nl.clara.net [212.61.20.1]) by mail1-new.vianetworks.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E90DAFD5E; Wed, 2 May 2007 10:22:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46384746.8080707@claranet.nl> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 10:09:42 +0200 From: Jasper Berlijn User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070403) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Vogel References: <46150E1A.9050900@claranet.nl> <2a41acea0704051118t5e7965f6m76ee26b6263bb9cc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0704051118t5e7965f6m76ee26b6263bb9cc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em0 watchdog timeout with nfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 08:09:44 -0000 Hi all, The problem still exists, the following I've tried: * Using: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 * Disabled all 'interal' devices (usb / serial / sound) * Also tried dcgdis.ThisIsZip (the Ethernet Controller didn't need this, but tried it anyway) * Swapped with a new em network card and swithed pci bus. Also using iperf the timeouts occurs! (without nfs) Reverted back to 4.11 which is still running stable (also with iperf) Any ideas? Jack Vogel wrote: > On 4/5/07, Jasper Berlijn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> At this moment I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 without any problems. A couple >> of times I've tried to upgrade to 6.x but without any luck because of >> the watchdog timeout errors on em0 when using nfs. >> >> Mar 30 11:30:48 large kernel: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting >> Mar 30 11:30:48 large kernel: em0: link state changed to DOWN >> Mar 30 11:30:51 large kernel: em0: link state changed to UP >> Mar 30 11:31:01 large kernel: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting >> Mar 30 11:31:01 large kernel: em0: link state changed to DOWN >> Mar 30 11:31:03 large kernel: em0: link state changed to UP >> Mar 30 11:31:20 large kernel: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting >> Mar 30 11:31:20 large kernel: em0: link state changed to DOWN >> Mar 30 11:31:23 large kernel: em0: link state changed to UP >> >> em0@pci0:14:0: class=0x020000 card=0x002e8086 chip=0x100e8086 rev=0x02 >> hdr=0x00 >> vendor = 'Intel Corporation' >> device = '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' >> class = network >> subclass = ethernet >> >> When I try to copy a large file (1gb) then after a couple of mb's >> (100mb) the wachtdog timeout will occur. The system is most of the time >> idle. Using debug.mpsafenet="0" in /boot/loader.conf doesn't make any >> difference. >> >> Any ideas? > > The driver in 6.2 RELEASE fixed all known problems with > watchdogs, other than REAL issues with the network/hardware. > Have you tried installing that? > > Jack > _______________________________________________ > 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" >From - Wed