From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 3 06:37:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F4B37B401; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 06:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amsfep14-int.chello.nl (amsfep14-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2D843F3F; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 06:37:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from girgen@pingpong.net) Received: from palle.girgensohn.se ([213.89.138.245]) by amsfep14-int.chello.nlESMTP <20030603133722.ZQLD17933.amsfep14-int.chello.nl@palle.girgensohn.se>; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:37:22 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palle.girgensohn.se (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h53DbLsx026617; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:37:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@pingpong.net) Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 15:37:21 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <176830000.1054647441@palle.girgensohn.se> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: fxp0: device timeout | SCB already complete. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:37:25 -0000 Hi! When I run network backups, one of our FreeBSD machines (backup client) get NIC timeouts and warnings from the scsi driver: Jun 3 14:50:12 melon /kernel: fxp0: device timeout Jun 3 14:50:36 melon /kernel: fxp0: device timeout Jun 3 14:51:03 melon /kernel: fxp0: device timeout Jun 3 14:51:38 melon /kernel: fxp0: device timeout Jun 3 14:52:41 melon /kernel: ahc0: Timedout SCB already complete. Interrupts may not be functioning. Jun 3 14:53:12 melon /kernel: fxp0: device timeout Both machines are on a hubbed 100 Mbit/s half duplex network. Looking at the traffic with netstat -d 1, I see that as soon as the traffic increases, there is a timeout and traffic stops, after with the net is reachable again. This goes on and on. It only happens when there is much traffic on both NIC and SCSI, it seems (alas when running backups...) Since there was a second NIC, it tried connecting it to the server using that NIC through a switch, on a private network, but then the machine nearly crashed, or at least came to a grinding halt. It seems, as soon as I pulled the ethernet cable it came back. This happened without any backup running... To me, this sounds like some odd interrupt problem? It is a PCI machine with an Intel ?x440 (if memory serves me right) and dual CPUs 400 Mhz, running freebsd-4.7p2. Any ideas where to look, how to debug or what to do? Thanks Palle