On 37378-12-23 20:59, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hello! > >> Well, the best I can say at the moment is, "Wow." =-( I guess the >> thing to do here is to figure out if the problem lies with the em >> interrupt handler not getting run, or the taskqueue not getting run. > > I helped Pyun with some debugging by providing ssh access to > a machine showing the (seemingly) same problem. > > At first he thought the interrupt handler of the em driver was > the culprit, but we applied quite a few patches and tested > afterwards - seems like the driver is not the cause. > > On -stable occasionally other people complained about very similar > looking problems with bge and other drivers. My guess is, though > I'm not a kernel developer, just an experienced admin, that > em stands out as problematic just by coincidence. Certain onboard > network components tend to come with certaiin chipsets and certain > architectures. > > So, Pyun suggested it was a problem with the taskqueue that was > introduced some time between 6.0 and 6.1. > > With my system (Tyan GT20 B5161G20) the problem shows when there > is heavy disk and cpu activity, like "make buildworld". > I made sure that the em interface doesn't share an interrupt > with the SATA controller. When the problem occurs, I get the > well known "watchdog timeout" messages and then the system's > network activity over that interface freezes completely for > a couple of minutes. > Usually the system recovers after a while without reboot or > other measures. >
Strange... I've seen exactly that on a (recent) RELENG_6 box but using a dirty old USB 1.1 NIC (aue). I've seen DOWN and UP messages (mostly while rebuilding kernel + world + ports) on the console all the time (but did not care about). The machine in question is an Athlon XP-64 Socket 939, Asus A8N-VM CSM. The USB ethernet NIC is a low budget ADMtek device. My observations are probably not related to your issues but maybe a sign of not really being a driver issue or not GigE related. Greeting, Volker _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"