Intel em0: watchdog timeout

[Mike Tancsa]

At 03:46 PM 2/22/2010, Kirk Davis wrote:
>Does this need to be done in loader.conf?  It doesn't seem to take from
>the command line.
># sysctl dev.em.2.stats=1
>dev.em.2.stats: -1 -> -1
>
># sysctl dev.em.2.stats
>dev.em.2.stats: -1

Hi,
         After you issue those commands, the driver will spit out a 
lot of useful stats to syslog. It will report something like the 
following in /var/log/messages

Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: Excessive collisions = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: Sequence errors = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: Defer count = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: Missed Packets = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: Receive No Buffers = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: Receive Length Errors = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: Receive errors = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: Crc errors = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: Alignment errors = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: Collision/Carrier extension errors = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: RX overruns = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: watchdog timeouts = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: RX MSIX IRQ = 0 TX MSIX IRQ = 0 
LINK MSIX IRQ = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: XON Rcvd = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: XON Xmtd = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: XOFF Rcvd = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: XOFF Xmtd = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: Good Packets Rcvd = 2559032551
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: Good Packets Xmtd = 1568751141
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: TSO Contexts Xmtd = 0
Feb 22 16:06:31 offsite kernel: em0: TSO Contexts Failed = 0

         ---Mike


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