Disappointed-new

[Mike Tancsa]

At 08:14 AM 07/04/2006, Albert Shih wrote:

>         The 6-stable is installed on the server on begin of February 2006
>
>Problems :
>
>
>
>                 bge0 watchdog timeout problems
>                 bge0 watchdog timeout problems


There have been a number of improvements to the bge driver in late 
Feb / early March.  I had a busy BIND server that had those errors on 
its bge nic which went away by updating to something past March 7th
ie

[tyan-1u]% ident /usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c:
      $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c,v 1.91.2.13 2006/03/04 
09:34:48 oleg Exp $
[tyan-1u]%




>         Again after some days the .... em0 interface don't work. And this
>         time the message on console is
>                 em0 watchdog timeout problems
>
Are the interface stats clean ? Take a look at the switch port and 
make sure there is not some duplex mismatch or flow control issue.


>         Now I'm running all interface in polling mode. And...I hope it's
>         work...(running from 2 days).

If you are hitting livelock then polling will help on the busy 
NICS.  When in non polling mode, what sort of load avg were you 
seeing spent in system


         ---Mike