Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 19:13:25 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1013208421.5f92d0@mired.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with SiS900 on S7K5A Message-ID: <3C5DFC55.3040200@owt.com> References: <15453.48613.12001.228683@guru.mired.org>
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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
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