i386/40274: "fxp: device timeout" errors during heavy,sustained
network activity
Gary Hanson
garyh at agora.rdrop.com
Fri Apr 18 12:40:14 PDT 2003
The following reply was made to PR i386/40274; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Gary Hanson <garyh at agora.rdrop.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, seagull at aracnet.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: i386/40274: "fxp: device timeout" errors during heavy, sustained
network activity
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:33:53 -0700 (PDT)
Also seen on 4.8-RELEASE and 5.0-RELEASE; very easy and quick to reproduce.
System is an Intel N440BX dual proc mobo with integrated 82557 (Pro100B) NIC on
a dedicated IRQ.
On SMP kernels, I could ping for as long as I wanted to, even with large
(64000 byte) packets. Didn't try flood ping though. But try to do some real I/O
like an ftp or Samba file copy and the transfer would die almost immediately and
the console would start reporting fxp: device timeout messages every few seconds,
even after disconnecting the ethernet cable. The system was then in a very weird
state; it was acting like it was very busy (sluggish) but wasn't totally
unresponsive, and it could not be shutdown properly - that would seem to hang (or
I wasn't willing to wait long enough).
With a single-processor kernel, 4.8 and 5.0 both had no problems.
The hardware is good; it works fine with SMP OSes from Redmond; I'll try a
penguin 'OS' for amusement purposes. [The penguin 'e100' driver is vastly better
than the rather old FreeBSD fxp driver, but I'm not competent to adapt/port/steal
it.]
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