dell poweredge 1950 : not rebooting under 6.1 (sometimes) + bce0 issues

[Olivier Mueller]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 11:44 +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> Any guess about what I should try?   I recompiled the kernel
> with & without apci support or some different options, but it didn't
> helped yet. 

Another problem: I wanted to transfer large amount of data (10GB) using
rsync via the network, and just after 60MB, the network card won't
answser anymore, and here is what is displayed in dmesg:

bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(4644): Error mapping mbuf into TX
chain!
bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(4644): Error mapping mbuf into TX
chain!
bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(4644): Error mapping mbuf into TX
chain!
[...]

Then if I let it continue, the server simply "crashes" (keyboard 
not responding, and no network access).


$ dmesg | grep bce
bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.5> mem
0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9
bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0
bce0: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:f8:6f:8c
bce1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.5> mem
0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci5
bce1: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
miibus1: <MII bus> on bce1
bce1: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:f8:6f:8a


To be continued, I'll continue to test, but it seems I will have to go
back to linux for that PE 1950 server if it continues like that :/

regards,
Olivier