From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Sep 9 0:53: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A8A14D00 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 00:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vallo@matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09604; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:51:24 +0300 (EET DST) Received: by myhakas.matti.ee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D2D2CD5; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:51:28 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:51:28 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste To: "Ingram, Russell" Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, "RFI@home" Subject: Re: kern/12979: Response time continually slows on idle machine, PIII processors on version 3.2 Message-ID: <19990909105128.B12876@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Ingram, Russell on Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 12:38:40PM -0700 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 12:38:40PM -0700, "Ingram, Russell" wrote: > After looking into this problem I find that tit is quite different then it > originally appeared to be. It appears that the Ethernet connection response > slows in a shorter time then the console login. So I changed out the SMC > 83c170 Ethernet board that uses the tx0 driver with an Intel Ethernet board > that uses the fxp0 driver. I ran a test over the three day weekend and the > problem appears to have disappeared. I'll confer back on this latter after > we have more cook time on it. > > In the mean time it appears that the problem Synopsys needs to be changed to > : SMC 83C170 Ethernet controller using tx driver slows and stops machine > after days of Ethernet traffic. What I have seen is the card does lots of interrupts after three-four hours of workload in some machines. I've seen more than 70000 ints and my onboard SCSI response time went very slow. The machine was idle, as in your case. I personally blame the tx driver for all the faults as the card works very well under NetBSD. Under FreeBSD the autonegotiation doesn't work reliably, opposed to NetBSD. Perhaps the MII bus from NetBSD will help, unfortunately the tx driver wasn't converted yet. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message