Watchdog Timeout - bge device - 6.2-PRERELEASE

John Marshall John.Marshall at riverwillow.com.au
Mon Nov 6 10:57:25 UTC 2006


John Marshall wrote:
> I don't see this at all on 6.1 unless I use SCHED_ULE. (Although, I
> haven't compiled all those additional drivers into a 6.1 system, so that
> might not be a fair comparison.)

Wrong! I saw this last night for the first time on a production hp 
ProLiant ML110 (6.1-RELEASE-p10). UP + SCHED_4BSD. So, 6.2 is no worse 
for me :-)

By the way, I'm only running these BGE interfaces at 100 Full.

rwsrv04> grep bge /var/log/messages
Nov  6 01:02:09 rwsrv04 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
Nov  6 01:02:09 rwsrv04 kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
Nov  6 01:02:09 rwsrv04 kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP
Nov  6 01:05:36 rwsrv04 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
Nov  6 01:05:36 rwsrv04 kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
Nov  6 01:05:36 rwsrv04 kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP

rwsrv04> sysctl kern.version kern.sched kern.smp hw.machine hw.model 
dev.bgekern.version: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Tue Oct 31 00:06:13 
AEDT 2006
     root at rwsrv04.mby.riverwillow.net.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RWSRV04

kern.sched.name: 4BSD
kern.sched.quantum: 100000
kern.sched.followon: 0
kern.sched.pfollowons: 0
kern.sched.kgfollowons: 0
kern.sched.preemption: 1
kern.smp.maxcpus: 1
kern.smp.active: 0
kern.smp.disabled: 0
kern.smp.cpus: 1
hw.machine: i386
hw.model: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
dev.bge.0.%desc: Broadcom BCM5705K Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x3003
dev.bge.0.%driver: bge
dev.bge.0.%location: slot=4 function=0
dev.bge.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x14e4 device=0x1654 subvendor=0x103c 
subdevice=0x1654 class=0x020000
dev.bge.0.%parent: pci4

John Marshall.



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