From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 25 18:19:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEAA316A4DF for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:19:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279D543D69 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:19:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b36so2490645pyb for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:19:22 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mkIhTiIszWnTozHPjax7mEBMduO70Os3zgfdtJspME7cajVcKMli8R1hyo5U0mQ8aLcdPyiHhOKi1A5VhSrbZHI67QU/45c1QyGOOX/uo154s2wCcJM7eqnA1Tvz3+iCNohIWbK6KNo/tsyBlW4tusCUOMOZVqhjdpdtyof1bE8= Received: by 10.35.111.14 with SMTP id o14mr627614pym; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.119.14 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a41acea0607251119i33176020pfc4183ecd2251dd2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:19:22 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" To: "Jeremie Le Hen" In-Reply-To: <20060725124328.GI6253@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060721123448.GV6253@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <44C1CE73.7030200@FreeBSD.org> <20060725124328.GI6253@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [fbsd] Re: em(4) watchdog timeout X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:19:26 -0000 On 7/25/06, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:06:27AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am running a two month old current (dated from May 24) > > > > SOP with -current is that before you submit a bug report for a system this > > old you should upgrade to the latest world and kernel. Two months is > > _really_ old in -current terms. > > I am rebuilding a fresher one right now. According to Ian's post, > the problem is likely to remain. What do you advice me to do to > track this down ? > > FYI, my -CURRENT kernel (as well userland) is patched with ProPolice. > I don't think this can lead to this kind of problem, the overhead is > really small, in an order of 3 percent. Do you think such an > overhead in a time-critial path could trigger a watchdog timeout ? Well, watchdogs ARE about timeouts :) I know nothing about ProPolice but would suggest removing for a test and see if the problem goes away. As for the debug_info and stats data you sent, there was nothing that looked bad in it, but those are more of a dynamic tool, its when the problem occurs that this will possibly show why.... I know, it doesnt make it easy :( Jack