em, bge, network problems survey.
O. Hartmann
ohartman at mail.uni-mainz.de
Thu Oct 5 21:17:52 UTC 2006
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:14:27PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I'm seeing some patterns here with all of the network driver problem
>> reports, but I need more information to help narrow it down further.
>> I ask all of you who are having problems to take a minute to fill
>> out this survey and return it to Kris Kennaway (on cc:) and myself.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> 1. Are you experiencing network hangs and/or "timeout" messages on the
>> console? If yes, please provide a _brief_ description of the problem.
>>
>
> OK, next question, to all em users:
>
> If your em device is using a shared interrupt, and you are NOT
> experiencing timeout problems when using this device, please let me
> know:
>
> dalki# vmstat -i
> interrupt total rate
> irq4: sio0 2071 0
> irq6: fdc0 10 0
> irq14: ata0 47 0
> irq20: ahd0 21755 4
> irq23: em0 124751 23 <-- not a shared interrupt
> irq24: ahd1 15 0
> cpu0: timer 10453509 1999
> Total 10602158 2027
>
> tyan# vmstat -i
> interrupt total rate
> irq14: ata0 58 0
> irq16: em0 fxp1 332832 851 <-- shared interrupt
> irq18: fxp0 973 2
> irq19: atapci1 132883 339
> cpu0: timer 774308 1980
> cpu1: timer 777136 1987
> Total 2018190 5161
>
> So far all of the em problems I have seen involve shared interrupts,
> and conversely all em systems I have seen that do not have timeout
> problems are not shared.
>
> Kris
>
>
And so looks mine, FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64,
high I/O on disks and I/O on net renders this box unusuable ...
thor# vmstat -i
interrupt total rate
irq1: atkbd0 12437 1
irq6: fdc0 27 0
irq12: psm0 335285 42
irq14: ata0 215 0
irq17: fwohci0 1 0
irq20: atapci1 102616 12
irq21: ohci0+ 2 0
irq22: nve0 ehci0 7594338 956
irq23: pcm0 41007 5
cpu0: timer 31752206 3999
Total 39838134 5018
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