em, bge, network problems survey.

[Albert Shih]

 Le 05/10/2006 à 16:05:52-0400, Kris Kennaway a écrit
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:14:27PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > I'm seeing some patterns here with all of the network driver problem 
> > reports, but I need more information to help narrow it down further.
> > I ask all of you who are having problems to take a minute to fill
> > out this survey and return it to Kris Kennaway (on cc:) and myself.
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > 1. Are you experiencing network hangs and/or "timeout" messages on the 
> > console?  If yes, please provide a _brief_ description of the problem.
> 
> OK, next question, to all em users:
> 
> If your em device is using a shared interrupt, and you are NOT
> experiencing timeout problems when using this device, please let me
> know:
> 
> dalki# vmstat -i
> interrupt                          total       rate
> irq4: sio0                          2071          0
> irq6: fdc0                            10          0
> irq14: ata0                           47          0
> irq20: ahd0                        21755          4
> irq23: em0                        124751         23 <-- not a shared interrupt
> irq24: ahd1                           15          0
> cpu0: timer                     10453509       1999
> Total                           10602158       2027
> 
> tyan# vmstat -i
> interrupt                          total       rate
> irq14: ata0                           58          0
> irq16: em0 fxp1                   332832        851 <-- shared interrupt
> irq18: fxp0                          973          2
> irq19: atapci1                    132883        339
> cpu0: timer                       774308       1980
> cpu1: timer                       777136       1987
> Total                            2018190       5161
> 
> So far all of the em problems I have seen involve shared interrupts,
> and conversely all em systems I have seen that do not have timeout
> problems are not shared.
> 
Personnaly I've very lots of problem with my em0 card (Proliant ML 380)
I've lots of em0 watchdog problem (the interface disapeare) and I dont use
shared interrupt 

[root at nfs3 ]# vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq1: atkbd0                           2          0
irq4: sio0                         29520          2
irq6: fdc0                            87          0
irq15: ata1                           47          0
irq16: uhci0                    26848237       2063
irq17: bge0                      1881736        144
irq24: mpt0                           29          0
irq25: mpt1                           17          0
irq26: fxp0 fxp1                 2776380        213
irq48: isp0                      1537121        118
irq72: ciss0                      217837         16
irq76: em0                      25144932       1932
irq77: em1                       1818458        139
cpu0: timer                     25996358       1997
Total                           86250761       6628
[root at nfs3 ]# 

Regards.


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Albert SHIH
Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
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