Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-11 Thread Christer Solskogen
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'm not really sure anyone will know how to fix this. Sometimes a BIOS upgrade can fix such things, other times motherboard replacements are in order. I'll check the BIOS and see if I could do something with it. If I enable POLLING, could that fix the problem? --

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-11 Thread Christer Solskogen
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Simply put: I don't know. Based on the polling(4) man page, it might improve things for you, but your ATA high interrupt rate problem will still exist even if you use polling(4). Okay. Thanks for taking time helping me :) -- chs

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:00:18AM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'm not really sure anyone will know how to fix this. Sometimes a BIOS upgrade can fix such things, other times motherboard replacements are in order. I'll check the BIOS and see if I could

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-11 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Uit een eerder bericht (10-11-2008 13:45): Do anyone have a tips for how to workaround this or is the server just junk? Got this problem a while ago as well. I found out with me it was hub related. If I was downloading, my hub was displaying 100Mbit connection (I wish it was :-) Then I

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-11 Thread Christer Solskogen
Christer Solskogen wrote: I have a server with a em interface. Whenever the server has a high load (compiling world for instance) the network connectivity is lost. The solution was to disable the onboard network card, and insert a pci-x card instead. -- chs

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-11 Thread Dan
Jos Chrispijn([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.11 09:37:47 +0100: Uit een eerder bericht (10-11-2008 13:45): Do anyone have a tips for how to workaround this or is the server just junk? Got this problem a while ago as well. I found out with me it was hub related. If I was downloading, my hub

High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Robert Huff
Christer Solskogen writes: I have a server with a em interface. Whenever the server has a high load (compiling world for instance) the network connectivity is lost. dmesg tells me this: em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP em0: link state changed to DOWN

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
Robert Huff wrote: Have you double-checked the hardware? (Includes the cable connection.) The em driver has a very good reputation and others - includong myself - use it under siilar load profiles with no problems. Yeah, I have. The error is replicated just by giving the machine

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Mel
On Monday 10 November 2008 15:18:40 Christer Solskogen wrote: Robert Huff wrote: Have you double-checked the hardware? (Includes the cable connection.) The em driver has a very good reputation and others - includong myself - use it under siilar load profiles with no problems.

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:45 AM 11/10/2008, Christer Solskogen wrote: I have a server with a em interface. Whenever the server has a high load (compiling world for instance) the network connectivity is lost. dmesg tells me this: em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP em0: link state changed

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
Mel wrote: Any shared interrupts? What does vmstat -i show under the load you describe? irq1: atkbd0 531 0 irq6: fdc010 0 irq14: ata0 95 0 irq18: em0 atapci1 1198845

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Mel
On Monday 10 November 2008 15:44:59 Christer Solskogen wrote: irq18: em0 atapci1               1198845          4 Since disk and network card share the same IRQ, does the problem occur if you generate a similar load, without using disk IO? Like, put a big file on a memory disk and bzip it.

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:45:44PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: I have a server with a em interface. Whenever the server has a high load (compiling world for instance) the network connectivity is lost. dmesg tells me this: em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Dan
Christer Solskogen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.10 13:45:44 +0100: I have a server with a em interface. Whenever the server has a high load (compiling world for instance) the network connectivity is lost. I have a problem where the whole machine becomes unresponsive on sustained disk IO every few

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Can you provide dmesg | grep em0 output? I'd like to see what version of NIC this is. No problem. em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.7.3 port 0xbc00-0xbc1f mem 0xfc5e-0xfc5f irq 18 at device 1.0 on pci1 em0: Ethernet address:

High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
I have a server with a em interface. Whenever the server has a high load (compiling world for instance) the network connectivity is lost. dmesg tells me this: em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP em0: link

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP em0: link state changed to DOWN Have you double-checked the hardware? (Includes the cable connection.) The em driver has a very good reputation and others - includong myself - use it under siilar load profiles with no

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i don't think it's interrupt sharing problems. anyway - turn on MSI interrupts if your hardware can. check if producing high load on atapci1 make problem worse or not. On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Christer Solskogen wrote: Mel wrote: Any shared interrupts? What does vmstat -i show under the load

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 05:52:59PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Can you provide dmesg | grep em0 output? I'd like to see what version of NIC this is. No problem. em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.7.3 port 0xbc00-0xbc1f mem

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Well shoot, that didn't tell me what I want. pciconv -lv, and look for the em0 entry? (I need all the lines shown associated with it) Here you go: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:1:0: class=0x02 card=0x342f8086 chip=0x10758086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i don't think it's interrupt sharing problems. anyway - turn on MSI interrupts if your hardware can. I dont seem so (unless i interpret the output of pciconf wrong: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pciconf -lc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x342f8086

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:13:23AM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Well shoot, that didn't tell me what I want. pciconv -lv, and look for the em0 entry? (I need all the lines shown associated with it) Here you go: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:1:0: class=0x02

Re: High load - lost network

2008-11-10 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 08:25:10 Christer Solskogen wrote: During dd if=/dev/random of=bigfile bs=500k count=5 (about 200 seconds) made the network unresponsive again. Same symptom as I got when running make buildworld. And same command with of=/dev/null? -- Mel Problem with