From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 12 18:19:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA23646 for current-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA23636 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id VAA10991; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:19:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id VAA07388; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:19:26 -0400 (EDT) To: Karl Denninger cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Problems? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:42:31 CDT." <19970912094231.48481@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:19:25 -0400 Message-ID: <7386.874113565@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Karl Denninger wrote in message ID <19970912094231.48481@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>: > Hi foolks, > > Anyone got an idea what this means? > > de1: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to 96|256) > de1: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to 8|512) > de1: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to 1024) > de1: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (switching to store-and-forward > mode According to Matt, this is a problem with the PCI bus on the m/b not being fast enough to handle the data. He says the Natoma is notoriously slow (which is why I saw the messages too) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info