dell poweredge 1950 : not rebooting under 6.1 (sometimes) + bce0 issues

[Olivier Mueller]

Hi John, and thanks for your feedback!

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:00 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 11:44 +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> > Another problem: I wanted to transfer large amount of data (10GB) using
> > rsync via the network, and just after 60MB, the network card won't
> > answser anymore, and here is what is displayed in dmesg:
> > 
> > bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(4644): Error mapping mbuf into TX
> > chain!
> 
> This sounds like it is out of tx descriptors.  Do you ever get a watchdog 
> timeout message?  If not, can you try this patch:

no watchdog timeout message. I tried your patch, but it doesn't seem to
have an effect on the problem yet: 

Jul 19 08:22:28 dev2006 kernel:
bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(4644): Error mapping mbuf into TX
chain! -patched20060719-
Jul 19 08:22:59 dev2006 last message repeated 58 times
Jul 19 08:23:34 dev2006 last message repeated 59 times

and then the network is not responding anymore. 
Ready for the next suggestion... :)

regards,
Olivier