From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 28 21:02:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711E816A421 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:02:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidch@broadcom.com) Received: from mms2.broadcom.com (mms2.broadcom.com [216.31.210.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45FB013C483 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:02:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidch@broadcom.com) Received: from [10.10.64.154] by mms2.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom SMTP Relay (Email Firewall v6.3.1)); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:02:20 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: A6C4E0AE-A7F0-449F-BAE7-7FA0D737AC76 Received: by mail-irva-10.broadcom.com (Postfix, from userid 47) id 32D662AF; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-irva-8.broadcom.com (mail-irva-8 [10.10.64.221]) by mail-irva-10.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0A42AE; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-irva-12.broadcom.com (mail-irva-12.broadcom.com [10.10.64.146]) by mail-irva-8.broadcom.com (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id FKR70315; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:02:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com ( nt-irva-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com [10.8.194.64]) by mail-irva-12.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D3F269CA3; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:02:11 -0700 (PDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:02:10 -0700 Message-ID: <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD9030457137B@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <4683C578.6070009@tomjudge.com> Thread-Topic: Problems with BCE network adapter (Dell PE2950) Thread-Index: Ace5kMf8tXReAU+tSNO0tue8ft3OFgANaqRg References: <46680DB1.9050905@tomjudge.com> <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD9030414B1EC@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> <466873FA.9030800@tomjudge.com> <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD9030423EE13@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> <46823A78.7020501@tomjudge.com> <4683C578.6070009@tomjudge.com> From: "David Christensen" To: "Tom Judge" X-WSS-ID: 6A9AFE563DG518277-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-net Subject: RE: Problems with BCE network adapter (Dell PE2950) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:02:31 -0000 > Sorry for the top post, but I have just managed to repeat is=20 > exact crash=20 > twice on a new PE 1950 system. I have core files available. >=20 > It seems that after a couple of reboots the problem goes away. The=20 > system actually crashed 4 times but 2 of the cores where corrupt. >=20 > It also seems that the system will be stable if the following=20 > message is=20 > not produced shortly after /etc/rc.d/netif start: >=20 > bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(3489): Too many free=20 > rx_bd (0xFFF9 >=20 > 0x01FE)! >=20 The error indicates that too many receive buffer descriptors were freed from the receive chain. The driver must be losing count somewhere. The process for duplicating the error sounds simple enough, how much data is in your NFS mounted directory? Are you using TCP or UDP for the NFS mount? Any idea what type of network activity is happening just after /etc/rc.d/netif start (DHCP, NTP, anything else)? Dave