Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:52:51 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2 Message-ID: <20060927135251.GA13222@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20060927132555.GB83422@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <451A1375.5080202@gneto.com> <20060927071538.GF22229@e-Gitt.NET> <451A4189.5020906@samsco.org> <20060927094509.GB75104@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <451A71B6.6040201@crc.u-strasbg.fr> <20060927132555.GB83422@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:25:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote: > > it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes > > we see some "watchdog timeout" in the log with a bge card, but maybe it's > > not the same problem... : > > As far as I know the watchdog timeouts are _supposed_ to be > mostly harmless, i.e. recoverable. You'll still see impact -- that is, no packets flowing. The reason things are recoverable is solely because of the retry functionality for layer 2 packets... In general, it's not a good thing to have watchdog timeouts. It means the interrupt is hung, or the card is hung. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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