em watchdog timeout on UP, 6-stable

[Kent Stewart]

On Friday 08 September 2006 10:25, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>   Barney,
>
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:33:52PM -0400, Barney Wolff wrote:
> B> Updated my Athlon-xp 6-stable system last night, got an em
> watchdog B> timeout for the first time a few hours later, during a
> fairly B> high-traffic period.  System is UP but does have device
> apic in B> the config.  Any chance this is the recent race condition?
> B> Workaround?  ifconfig em0 down, ifconfig em0 up seemed to cure it,
> B> at least for the moment.
>
> Not clear from your mail whether interface was working after the
> event occured.

In my system, you get the timeout, then the state is downed and then 
uped. Your transfer session is basically dead at that point. On 
Tuesday, Klop had an email with a copy of what you see in the message 
log.

Kent

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