watchdog timeout
xer
xernet at hotmail.it
Fri Apr 10 00:17:07 PDT 2009
Hello, i did sent this mine message to stable mail list, then i found that
your address is a manteiner for some bugs.
I'm asking if this one article:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129352
Has updates, since i haven't found any new, 'cause it's talking about
PRERELEASE and i'm working on 6.4-STABLE,
also how can it is possible to have a compiled kernel on january and it have
this bug still present?
Thand in advance for a your responce
Regards
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From: "xer" <xernet at hotmail.it>
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 10:41 AM
To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Subject: watchdog timeout
> Hello
> I have some problems with 3Com nics, after a upgrade from 5.5-STABLE to
> 6.4-STABLE.
>
> This machine has two 3com nics (one is LAN other is WAN) and i see too
> much "watchdog timeout" on both cards.
> This on/off up/down on cards, affect the interrupt to clients that are
> downloading from apache web server, especially on large files.
>
> --------------------------------------------
> xer:/root# dmesg
> xl1: watchdog timeout
> xl1: link state changed to DOWN
> xl1: link state changed to UP
> xl1: watchdog timeout
> xl1: link state changed to DOWN
> xl1: link state changed to UP
> xl1: watchdog timeout
> xl1: link state changed to DOWN
> xl1: link state changed to UP
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> xer:/root# cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep xl
> xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem
> 0xfceffc00-0xfceffc7f irq 23 at device 11.0 on pci2
> miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
> xlphy0: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on miibus0
> xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:e0:04:1b
> xl1: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xe880-0xe8ff mem
> 0xfceff800-0xfceff87f irq 20 at device 12.0 on pci2
> miibus1: <MII bus> on xl1
> xlphy1: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on miibus1
> xlphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> xl1: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:df:fe:ed
> ---------------------------------------------
> Another doubt would be my kernel config, maybe there is something wrong
> that i cannot see, i'll post at the end of this post, 'cause is too long.
>
> As you can see, the cards are 3c905C-TX model.
> Someone told me to change drivers, but i cannot understand this advice.
> I got same errors with same cards but with another mainboard, same
> problem, watchdog appears after an upgrade from 5.4-STABLE to 6.4-STABLE.
>
> I don't think that to change nic's pci slots, will solve the problem, i
> think that maybe change the nics would resolve the matter, but i cannot
> access to both FreeBSD phisically, cause the boxes are too far from me
> (about 3500 km).
>
> I'm asking you some advices, and i can i fix this problem.
> p.s. with both 5.4 or 5.5 old kernel, the nics was fine.
>
> Regards
> Xer
>
> ----------kernel config -----------
> xer:/root# cat /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ASUS
> #
> # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.429.2.18 2008/07/28 02:20:29
> yongari Exp $
> #
> # custom kernel ASUS 01.15.2009
>
> machine i386
> cpu I686_CPU
> ident ASUS
>
> options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler
> options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption
> options INET # InterNETworking
> options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols
> options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
> options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support
> options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists
> options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big
> directories
> options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device
> options NFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client
> options NFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server
> options NFSLOCKD # Network Lock Manager
> options NFS_ROOT # NFS usable as /, requires
> NFSCLIENT
> options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem
> options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem
> options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires
> PSEUDOFS)
> options PSEUDOFS # Pseudo-filesystem framework
> options GEOM_GPT # GUID Partition Tables.
> options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP
> THIS!]
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5
> options KTRACE # ktrace(1) support
> options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory
> options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues
> options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores
> options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time
> extensions
> options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
> options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive.
>
> device apic # I/O APIC
>
> # Bus support.
> device eisa
> device pci
>
> # Floppy drives
> device fdc
>
> # ATA and ATAPI devices
> device ata
> device atadisk # ATA disk drives
> device ataraid # ATA RAID drives
> device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
> device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
> device atapist # ATAPI tape drives
> options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering
>
> # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
> device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller
> device atkbd # AT keyboard
> device psm # PS/2 mouse
>
> device kbdmux # keyboard multiplexer
>
> device vga # VGA video card driver
>
> device splash # Splash screen and screen saver support
>
> # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
> device sc
>
> device agp # support several AGP chipsets
>
> # Add suspend/resume support for the i8254.
> device pmtimer
>
> # Serial (COM) ports
> device sio # 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports
>
> # Parallel port
> device ppc
> device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required)
> device lpt # Printer
> device plip # TCP/IP over parallel
> device ppi # Parallel port interface device
>
> # PCI Ethernet NICs.
> device de # DEC/Intel DC21x4x (``Tulip'')
> device em # Intel PRO/1000 adapter Gigabit Ethernet
> Card
> device ixgb # Intel PRO/10GbE Ethernet Card
> device txp # 3Com 3cR990 (``Typhoon'')
> device vx # 3Com 3c590, 3c595 (``Vortex'')
>
> # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
> # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these
> NICs!
> device miibus # MII bus support
> device bce # Broadcom BCM5706/BCM5708 Gigabit
> Ethernet
> device bfe # Broadcom BCM440x 10/100 Ethernet
> device bge # Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet
> device dc # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
> device fxp # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557,
> 82558)
> device jme # JMicron JMC250 Gigabit/JMC260 Fast
> Ethernet
> device lge # Level 1 LXT1001 gigabit Ethernet
> device msk # Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit
> Ethernet
> device nge # NatSemi DP83820 gigabit Ethernet
> device nve # nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet
> Networking
> device pcn # AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100(precedence over
> 'lnc')
> device re # RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S
> device rl # RealTek 8129/8139
> device sf # Adaptec AIC-6915 (``Starfire'')
> device sis # Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS
> 7016
> device sk # SysKonnect SK-984x & SK-982x gigabit
> Ethernet
> device ste # Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX)
> device stge # Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 gigabit
> Ethernet
> device ti # Alteon Networks Tigon I/II gigabit
> Ethernet
> device tl # Texas Instruments ThunderLAN
> device tx # SMC EtherPower II (83c170 ``EPIC'')
> device vge # VIA VT612x gigabit Ethernet
> device vr # VIA Rhine, Rhine II
> device wb # Winbond W89C840F
> device xl # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'')
>
> # ISA Ethernet NICs. pccard NICs included.
> device cs # Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0 NIC
> # 'device ed' requires 'device miibus'
> device ed # NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390
> cards
> device ex # Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and Pro/10+
> device ep # Etherlink III based cards
> device fe # Fujitsu MB8696x based cards
> device ie # EtherExpress 8/16, 3C507, StarLAN 10
> etc.
> device lnc # NE2100, NE32-VL Lance Ethernet cards
> device sn # SMC's 9000 series of Ethernet chips
> device xe # Xircom pccard Ethernet
>
> # Pseudo devices.
> device loop # Network loopback
> device random # Entropy device
> device ether # Ethernet support
> device sl # Kernel SLIP
> device ppp # Kernel PPP
> device tun # Packet tunnel.
> device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
> device md # Memory "disks"
> device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
> device faith # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)
>
> # The `bpf' device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
> # Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
> # Note that 'bpf' is required for DHCP.
> device bpf # Berkeley packet filter
>
> # Firewall
> options IPFIREWALL # enable ipfirewall
> (required for dummynet)
> options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE # enable firewall output
> logging to syslogd(8)
> options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=0 # limit firewall verbosity
> output
> options IPDIVERT # divert sockets
> options DUMMYNET # enable dummynet
> operation
> options HZ=1000 # set the timer
> granularity
>
>
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