From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 21:11:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B9116A404 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:11:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@claranet.nl) Received: from devil.generec.nl (devil.generec.nl [213.160.217.112]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7D513C45D for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:11:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@claranet.nl) Received: from crashme.generec.nl (dsl-239-240.iae.nl [212.61.239.240]) by devil.generec.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914495B4B3B; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 22:52:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4615618E.2040001@claranet.nl> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:52:30 +0200 From: Jasper Berlijn User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070403) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Vogel References: <46150E1A.9050900@claranet.nl> <2a41acea0704051118t5e7965f6m76ee26b6263bb9cc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0704051118t5e7965f6m76ee26b6263bb9cc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em0 watchdog timeout with nfs 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: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:11:47 -0000 Jack Vogel wrote: > On 4/5/07, Jasper Berlijn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> At this moment I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 without any problems. A couple >> of times I've tried to upgrade to 6.x but without any luck because of >> the watchdog timeout errors on em0 when using nfs. >> >> Mar 30 11:30:48 large kernel: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting >> Mar 30 11:30:48 large kernel: em0: link state changed to DOWN >> Mar 30 11:30:51 large kernel: em0: link state changed to UP >> Mar 30 11:31:01 large kernel: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting >> Mar 30 11:31:01 large kernel: em0: link state changed to DOWN >> Mar 30 11:31:03 large kernel: em0: link state changed to UP >> Mar 30 11:31:20 large kernel: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting >> Mar 30 11:31:20 large kernel: em0: link state changed to DOWN >> Mar 30 11:31:23 large kernel: em0: link state changed to UP >> >> em0@pci0:14:0: class=0x020000 card=0x002e8086 chip=0x100e8086 rev=0x02 >> hdr=0x00 >> vendor = 'Intel Corporation' >> device = '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' >> class = network >> subclass = ethernet >> >> When I try to copy a large file (1gb) then after a couple of mb's >> (100mb) the wachtdog timeout will occur. The system is most of the time >> idle. Using debug.mpsafenet="0" in /boot/loader.conf doesn't make any >> difference. >> >> Any ideas? > > The driver in 6.2 RELEASE fixed all known problems with > watchdogs, other than REAL issues with the network/hardware. > Have you tried installing that? Running RELENG_6 (FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Wed Mar 28 14:32:07 CEST 2007). The network is running at (1000baseTX ) This system is dual boot so it's easy to switch from 4.11 (RELENG_4) and RELENG_6. The system is running without any problem on 4.11. - Jasper