From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 19:46:11 2005 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 BA30F16A4CE; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:46:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx3.compete.com (cmpt-hq.compete.com [208.20.156.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E61D43D39; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:46:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rkramer@compete.com) Received: from winops03.win.compete.com (winops03.win.compete.com.127.5.10.in-addr.arpa [10.5.127.44] (may be forged)) by mx3.compete.com (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j0EJkBeO000075; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:46:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from 10.5.127.170 ([10.5.127.170]) by winops03.win.compete.com ([10.5.127.44]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:45:00 +0000 Received: from slappy by winops03.win.compete.com; 14 Jan 2005 14:46:10 -0500 From: Ross Kramer To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <200501141430.24985.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <1105725440.11715.33.camel@slappy> <1105729327.11715.37.camel@slappy> <200501141430.24985.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:46:10 -0500 Message-Id: <1105731970.11715.43.camel@slappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 (2.0.3-2) cc: John Baldwin Subject: Re: em0 issues with 4.10 + SMP 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: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:46:11 -0000 What if I downgrade to an earlier version of FreeBSD, like 4.9 or 4.7? Would I still be running into the same problems? More simply, what version of FreeBSD do you recommend? Is the latest 5.x stuff stable enough for production environments? On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:30 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2005 02:02 pm, Ross Kramer wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:11 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Friday 14 January 2005 12:57 pm, Ross Kramer wrote: > > > Try adding 'device uhci' and 'device usb' to your kernel so that the USB > > > controller (which shares the same IRQ) will probe. It may be that the > > > USB controller is causing an interrupt storm of sorts, though on 4.x that > > > usually results in a hard hang. > > > > I tried enabling that in the config, rebuilt the kernel, installed it, > > and rebooted. em0 did the same thing again, but its ping times to the > > local network were in the 8000ms range, when it wasn't returning "Host > > down"... Any other suggestions? > > Hmm, not many for 4.x. The interrupt code in 4 and 5 is quite different now. > ____________________________ # Ross Kramer # # Systems Administrator # # Compete, Inc. # # rkramer@compete.com # #__________________________# Random quote: "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." --H.G. Wells