From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 16:20:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF0616A4CF for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:20:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dswu232.btconnect.com (dswu232.btconnect.com [193.113.154.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FDC343D39 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:19:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alan@cyclopsvision.co.uk) Received: from AJDELL9200 (actually host 223.164.36.213.in-addr.arpa) by dswu232.btconnect.com with SMTP (XT-PP) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:19:39 +0000 From: "Alan Jay" To: Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:19:30 -0000 Organization: Cyclops Vision Limited MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcUPaGQULRUem/oARuSrgpRqmKPUaQDRjJyg In-Reply-To: <20050210120105.3788C16A4FF@hub.freebsd.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-Id: <20050214161959.1FDC343D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:20:01 -0000 Hi, I have FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE onto our new twin operteron Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882 with 8Gb of RAM and had a reasonably stable operation for a few days we installed a couple of databases one worked fine but the other kept on causing the server to crash. I have searched the archive and there were issues last year but I couldn't work out if these have been totally resolved? The adapter does work fine in low levels of loading but when pushed (it is connected to a Gigabit switch) it seems to be the cause of the reboot - a what appeared to be stable server with moderate Ethernet activity was fine upping the activity with a new service caused regular reboots. There is no console message at the point of reboot to help that we have spotted. After some hunting around we found discussion about problems with this motherboards on board Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet controller on Linux last year and wondered if there were similar issues with FreeBSD 5.3's Broadcom driver? The problem only seems to happen when the controller is stretched with lots of data as the other mySQL database runs fine but switching to the more load intensive one causes issues. Thanks in advance for your advice.