From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 21 00:49:53 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1775416A41B for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:49:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nik@mail.optim-mol.cemu.ru) Received: from mail.optim-mol.cemu.ru (mail.optim-mol.cemu.ru [83.102.188.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C593313C45D for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:49:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nik@mail.optim-mol.cemu.ru) Received: from user-105na47.cable.mindspring.com ([64.91.168.135] helo=[192.168.2.254]) by mail.optim-mol.cemu.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1INHwK-000P4H-BO; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:49:51 +0400 Message-ID: <46CA368D.3010505@optim.com.ru> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:49:17 -0500 From: Nikolay Mirin Organization: =?UTF-8?B?0J7Qn9Ci0JjQnA==?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Clayton Milos , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <2306ABA6-49A6-412E-81CD-CBABAE885EB2@charter.net> <46C9D817.1070704@optim.com.ru> <006c01c7e36d$e67f95d0$0701a8c0@claylaptop> In-Reply-To: <006c01c7e36d$e67f95d0$0701a8c0@claylaptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: nik@mail.optim-mol.cemu.ru X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 64.91.168.135 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: nik@mail.optim-mol.cemu.ru X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on mail.optim-mol.cemu.ru); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: Subject: Re: Marvel Yukon using the sk driver 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: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:49:53 -0000 I agree, the second card we have there is Intel with fxp driver. One correction. The message said: "no buffer space available", when you ping something through that card. Clayton Milos said the following on 20.08.2007 16:05: >> Hi, what I can tell. >> I had a terrible problem with this card (PCI-E version) exactly one >> week ago. Both drivers msk from the system and myk from the vendor >> show similar behavior. >> On high loads, like 2-3 users from Samba domain pulling their >> profiles at the same time, the card just chokes. No ping, and >> "buffer overflow message". >> I mean I had to bring the interface down and up again. Absolutely >> disgusting. >> No tweak helps. >> >> I mean, we tested it over the weekend and it was fine, till folks >> come there on Monday and start massively using the server. >> >> We downgraded the hardware and put good old 3Com509 PCI or whatever >> works with xl driver. >> >> >> Robert Slawson said the following on 20.08.2007 10:13: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I have a marvel yukon pci gigabit ethernet card. For some reason, >>> after a period of time it will not transmit unless I make it >>> transmit by pinging via the console. It is very annoying as I cannot >>> ssh into the machine until I "wake up" the card by telling it to >>> ping something. >>> >>> I am using 6.2 stable and just yesterday rebuilt the kernel and >>> world hoping this would fix the problem. But nothing seems to help. >>> >>> I think the card needs to use the msk driver , which is installed, >>> but the card keeps using the sk driver. Is there a way to have >>> freebsd re identify the card correctly and use the proper driver? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Bob > >> From my experience it always pays to use good hardware. I use >> 3com/Broadcom > or Intel NIC's. Nothing else. Ever! > They get much better throughput with less CPU overhead. And the real > advantage is they have good suport in UNIX systems. > I know Jack Vogel did his best and sorted out the issues with mine and > many other people's Intel gigabit (em based) cards when there were > issues. My em card is flying along happily now like it should be. > The last server I bought had dual onboard Broadcom NIC's and I've had > not issues throwing 500Mbit/s through them. Haven't had a chance to > really push them to the limits yet. > > I know I'm not really helping you directly here but my advice would be > to throw an Intel gigabit desktop adapter in there and your problems > will disappear. They're only $20-$30 nowadays and it's going to take > your headache away. > > -Clay > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"