/tmp/security on 7.1-Release

[Maciej Suszko]

"Zbigniew Szalbot" <z.szalbot at lcwords.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Ever since upgrading from 7.0-Release to 7.1-Release I get the
> following in the daily security reports:
> 
> master.lc-words.com kernel log messages:
> +++ /tmp/security.yMzCQbS8	2009-05-13 03:01:25.000000000 +0200
> +re0: watchdog timeout
> +re0: link state changed to DOWN
> +re0: link state changed to UP
> 
> It just happens around 3 a.m. each day and so I wonder if I should be
> concerned about it...?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your suggestions!

I can bet it's NIC related problem, probably your re0 is sharing IRQ
with something and it's going up/down. The time you see (~3.oo AM) is
the moment periodic works, so it doesn't mean the problem happend then.

I've seen similar problems on cheap PC hardware with integrated NIC
and/or external PCI NIC (re/rl/em). Search for 're0: watchdog timeout'
on google.

The solution is to replace re with something else - em for example, but
there is no guarantee it's going to work - I had same problems on
crappy hardware with two identical interfaces plugged in (some model of
em - IRRC Intel PRO/1000 GT)
-- 
regards, Maciej Suszko.
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