Hi all, $ uname -a FreeBSD torus.slightlystrange.org 7.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 #0: Sun Nov 11 00:34:39 GMT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TORUS i386
nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce4 CK804 MCP9 Networking Adapter> port 0xe400-0xe407 mem 0xf0105000-0xf0105fff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0 I'm seeing a lot of these: nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering when the system is under heavy network load (my ports distfiles are NFS mounted from another box, so trying to extract, e.g., the OpenOffice source, is enough to cripple the box). When the demand for network resources has calmed down again, it usually comes back up without any further intervention. My kernel is simply a pared-down version of GENERIC (that is, I have only removed drivers that I don't need, and have added nothing to it). The same device worked adequately under 6.2-RELEASE with the nve driver. It is only since moving to 7-BETA2 and its default nfe driver that the problem has manifested. Google shows that other people have had similar problems with the nfe driver, but under 6.2-RELEASE on i386 and amd64, and no real solutions are offered up in the archives (none that I found, anyway). I saw a couple of suggestions that it might be down to the device sharing and interrupt channel, but that's not the case here: vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq0: clk 2709144 1000 irq1: atkbd0 10079 3 irq5: nvidia0+ 192988 71 irq6: fdc0 11 0 irq8: rtc 346692 128 irq10: nfe0+ 3300 1 irq11: pcm0 ohci0+ 93174 34 irq15: ata1 22 0 Total 3355410 1239 If they're of any use or interest: dmesg - http://catflap.slightlystrange.org/dmesg.txt pciconf -vl - http://catflap.slightlystrange.org/pciconf-l-v.txt kernel config - http://catflap.slightlystrange.org/kernel.txt sysctl -a - http://catflap.slightlystrange.org/sysctl-a.txt I would appreciate any insights or hints as to what I might do to fix this. Many thanks for your time, Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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