Constant watchdog timeouts on em0 with today's -CURRENT
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 22 23:45:44 PST 2006
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 00:35 -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > I just synced with today's -CURRENT, and rendered by port build machine
> > useless. With minimal network traffic (just logging in via SSH with a
> > TCP NFS-mounted home) I get an immediate watchdog timeout on em0, and
> > they just keep coming as I type in the session. The machine is
> > otherwise idle while this is occurring.
> >
> > I am currently running:
> >
> > FreeBSD fugu.marcuscom.com 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #83: Thu Nov
> > 23 01:51:05 EST 2006
> > root at fugu.marcuscom.com:/space2/obj/usr/src/sys/FUGU i386
> >
> > I was running:
> >
> > FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #80: Fri Nov 10 15:53:48 EST 2006
> > marcus at fugu.marcuscom.com:/space2/obj/usr/src/sys/FUGU
> >
> > Which provided stable networking. Here are my verbose dmesg and kernel
> > config. Note: this machine has both am if_em and an mpt card. Could
> > the recent MSI changes have exacerbated the em watchdog problem? What
> > can I do (besides downgrade) to resolve this? Thanks.
> >
> > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/fugu_dmesg.txt
> > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/fugu_kernel.txt
> >
> > Joe
>
> Have you followed the instructions in src/UPDATING on how to turn MSI
> off?
Man, do I feel stupid. I completely overlooked UPDATING. Indeed,
disabling MSI restores network stability. Thanks, Scott.
Joe
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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
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