Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:06:55 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Error on xl0 Message-ID: <20011121230655.B307@localhost> In-Reply-To: <010b01c172d6$186032d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:47:18PM %2B0100 References: <010b01c172d6$186032d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:47:18PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > What does this error message mean on the console: > > xl0: transmission error: 90 > xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 120 bytes At a guess, it means your Ethernet card ran out of data to send partway through a packet. I imagine it starts transmitting as soon as it has x bytes of a packet rather than waiting for the whole thing, and for some reason the rest of these packets wasn't delivered to it in time. The driver apparently increased the value of x in an attempt to prevent this from happening again. > It occured three times in a row while I was doing make install for fvwm2. A lack of bandwidth somewhere in your system could cause this kind of thing... were you generating a lot of network traffic and hammering your disk(s) at the same time with the fvwm compile? Was the machine otherwise busy somehow? I believe from previous exchanges that you're running a board with a VIA 686 southbridge -- these *are* known to have issues with data corruption and sensitivity wrt what's plugged in where on the PCI bus. http://www.viahardware.com/ has the best FAQ on the subject that I've found. There may be other equally plausible explanations, but I don't think we have sufficient information to make a definitive judgement. HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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