From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 3 19:13:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD1F37B41A for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:13:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA10086; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:13:26 -0800 Message-ID: <3C5DFC55.3040200@owt.com> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 19:13:25 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with SiS900 on S7K5A References: <15453.48613.12001.228683@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > I finally got around to upgrading my ECS S7K5A system to include the > patches for the SiS 735 chipset it uses. Everything seemed to be > working fine, so I pulled the fxp for use elsewhere. > > At which point problems start appearing. In particular, it seems like > network activity just stops every so often. Sometimes in minutes, > sometimes in days. Originally I thought it was related to running out > of mbufs, which I was doing, but the last time it happened netstat -m > reported "0 requests for memory denied" and ditto for delayed. Taking > the interface down and back up doesn't solve the problem. Rebooting > does. > > I realize I should have grabbed the status for the card while it was > down, but forgot, and have to leave for a couple of hours in about 10 > minutes. So I'm going to ask for suggestions about what I should > collect the next time this problem happens so that I can give a > reasonable report. Ditto for suggestions on actions to take to try > curing this symptom without having to reboot it that might provide > clues to solving the problem. What kind of connection do you have? I have one of the asymmetric DSL setups (768/128 on demand). I have downloaded 101 MB of the 4.5-iso and I have seen two stalls. I also see the stalls on other NICs. I have also been told that the stalls are the nature of the beast when you go with the asymmetric setup. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message