From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 28 18:32:04 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 C075F16A403; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:32:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F8913C481; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:32:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1SIW3Tx006274; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:32:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from mdt-xp.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.13.6/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l1SIW2DF077797 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:32:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <200702281832.l1SIW2DF077797@lava.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:30:01 -0500 To: Jeremy Chadwick From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <20070228092000.GA51292@icarus.home.lan> References: <20070215043533.GA3293@icarus.home.lan> <000b01c750bd$5a2d55b0$d801a8c0@dimuthu> <20070228092000.GA51292@icarus.home.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2 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, 28 Feb 2007 18:32:04 -0000 At 04:20 AM 2/28/2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:54:18PM +1100, Dimuthu Parussalla wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Dmesg output related to bge as follows. > > > > miibus0: on bge0 > > brgphy0: on miibus0 > > brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, > > 1000baseTX-FDX, auto > > bge0: Ethernet address: 00:11:25:e9:7f:58 > > bge0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > pcib6: at device 5.0 on pci0 > > pci8: on pcib6 > > bge1: mem 0xc6ff0000-0xc6ffffff irq > > 16 at device 0.0 on pci8 > > miibus1: on bge1 > > brgphy1: on miibus1 > > brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, > > 1000baseTX-FDX, auto > > bge1: Ethernet address: 00:11:25:e9:7f:59 > > bge1: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > >Feb 17 11:22:00 eos kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting >Feb 17 11:22:00 eos kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN >Feb 17 11:22:01 eos kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP >Feb 24 11:20:56 eos kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting >Feb 24 11:20:56 eos kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN >Feb 24 11:20:58 eos kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP > >bge0@pci4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x02c615d9 chip=0x165914e4 >rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > device = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express' > class = network > subclass = ethernet >bge1@pci5:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x02c615d9 chip=0x165914e4 >rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' > device = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express' > class = network > subclass = ethernet Pretty well the same thing we are seeing. Our interrupt rate is a bit higher as this is a fairly busy DNS server. I am guessing this is more an issue with the bge driver then a general network issue as other similarly loaded boxes with em nics are just fine for us. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-February/033229.html % vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 2 0 irq4: sio0 444 0 irq14: ata0 8076446 4 irq19: bge0 703813296 385 irq21: nve0 11884087 6 cpu0: timer 3652950060 1999 Total 4376724335 2396