From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 01:20:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652D816A4DF for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:20:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saki@pacific.net.id) Received: from melon.pacific.net.id (melon.pacific.net.id [203.123.254.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA79943D4C for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:20:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from saki@pacific.net.id) Received: (qmail 10523 invoked by uid 509); 10 Aug 2006 01:22:49 -0000 Received: from 202.46.69.59 by melon (envelope-from , uid 501) with qmail-scanner-1.24 (clamdscan: 0.88.2/1642. Clear:RC:1(202.46.69.59):. Processed in 0.03338 secs); 10 Aug 2006 01:22:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO SAKI) (202.46.69.59) by melon.pacific.net.id with SMTP; 10 Aug 2006 01:22:48 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:18:23 +0700 From: Akhmad Sakirun X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.0) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1845547331.20060810081823@pacific.net.id> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44D9ECB9.5020500@goodforbusiness.co.uk> References: <496795293.20060809195310@pacific.net.id> <44D9ECB9.5020500@goodforbusiness.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Network often not responding X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Akhmad Sakirun List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:20:31 -0000 Hello, right now, i'm using 3com ethernet: xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xa880-0xa8ff mem 0xfeafec00-0xfeafec7f irq 19 at device 7.0 on pci2 miibus0: on xl0 xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0 xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:0d:c1:45 onboard ethernet which disabled via BIOS was: Intel 82541E1 GbE Average traffic is 10-15Mbps on bussy hours, and connected client average < 1000 #netstat -n | grep EST | wc -l # 780 I really confused, i don't have any other Freebsd AMD64 system installed, but other with i386 system never got any problem like this. Best regards, Wednesday, August 9, 2006, 9:10:01 PM, Dominic wrote: > Googling for the second line I found this: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2005-November/009273.html > It quotes this part of the manual page for dc, another network card: > "This is from the dc(4) man page: > dc%d: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold The device generated a > transmit underrun error while attempting to DMA and transmit a packet. > This happens if the host is not able to DMA the packet data into the > NIC's FIFO fast enough. The driver will dynamically increase the > trans- > mit start threshold so that more data must be DMAed into the FIFO > before > the NIC will start transmitting it onto the wire." > So it would seem like the card cannot keep pace with the system. What NICs > have you tried? > Dom >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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"