em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting (6.1-STABLE)

[Jack Vogel]

On 9/13/06, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org> wrote:
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> Them manual page em(4) mentions trying another cable when the watchdog
> timeout happens, so I tried that. But it didn't help.
> Is there anything I can test to (help) debug this?
> It happens a lot when my machine is under load. (100% CPU)
> Is it possible that it happens since I upgraded the memory from 1GB to 2
> GB?

watchdogs mean that the transmit ring is not being cleaned, so the
question is what is your machine doing at 100% cpu, if its that busy
the network watchdogs may just be a side effect and not the real
problem?

Jack