From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 20:01:35 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 6896916A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:01:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail16.speakeasy.net (mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A1C43D45 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:01:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 10970 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2005 20:01:34 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 14 Jan 2005 20:01:34 -0000 Received: from [10.50.40.231] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0EK1TPQ043070; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:01:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Ross Kramer Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:00:54 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <1105725440.11715.33.camel@slappy> <200501141430.24985.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1105731970.11715.43.camel@slappy> In-Reply-To: <1105731970.11715.43.camel@slappy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501141500.54703.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org 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 20:01:35 -0000 On Friday 14 January 2005 02:46 pm, Ross Kramer wrote: > 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? I am not sure. If so, then it would perhaps indicate more of a driver bug than something in the interrupt code itself. > More simply, what version of FreeBSD do you recommend? Is the latest 5.x > stuff stable enough for production environments? It is for some environments, but that is something you would need to test locally yourself as I'm sure there are environments that 5.x is not ready to handle yet. It would be good to know if 5.x has the same problems with the network interfaces though, and a quick boot off of a CD can probably help determine that. > 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 -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org