Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:41:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Michiel Boland <michiel@boland.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting Message-ID: <20060706091811.T977@volatile.chemikals.org> In-Reply-To: <20060706085358.GA96644@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607021625270.27078@brakkenstein.nijmegen.internl.net> <20060702115840.L12091@volatile.chemikals.org> <20060706085358.GA96644@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:01:43PM -0400, Wesley Morgan wrote: > W> >Hi. I frequently get > W> > > W> >em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting > W> > > W> >messages, followed by loss of network at the most inopportune moments. > W> > > W> >It appears that it can be triggered by things like typing 'portinstall > W> >mozilla' over an SSH connection. But that is just a hunch. > W> > > W> >Any ideas how to debug this further? > W> > > W> >Hardware is a dell optiplex GX270. Kernel is -CURRENT from 29 june. > W> > W> I have the same issue on my laptop. It seems like the problem came into > W> being a few months ago, but I've never gone any further than trying to > W> revert to a previous version of the driver, which did not help. > > In rev. 1.107 of if_em.c there was a fix that made this message > printed. Before 1.107 the reset was issued, but driver was silent about > this. > > W> For me, the problem is more than just loss of network, but rather every > W> application hanging while multiple timeouts occurr. > > Hmm. May be you are using serial console and system lags when the > console messages are printed? No. I didn't have this laptop until after the 1.107 commit, either. It was probably always doing the timeout, I just never used it much until more recently. -- This .signature sanitized for your protection
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