From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 18:43:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7351116A469 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:43:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1125C13C4EE for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:43:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lAQIho7J045430; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:43:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D9427B8F8; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:43:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:43:49 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Martin Matuska Message-ID: <20071126184349.GB19393@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Martin Matuska , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <474A7F83.7080900@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="s/l3CgOIzMHHjg/5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <474A7F83.7080900@FreeBSD.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re(4) lockups on a MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital (7.0-BETA3 amd64) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:43:52 -0000 --s/l3CgOIzMHHjg/5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:10:43AM +0100, Martin Matuska wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I am using a MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital (MS-7368) mainboard with 7.0-BETA3 in > amd64 mode at a german dedicated server provider. > The mainboard has a onboard re(4) ethernet controller. I experience a > very strange behaiviour: >=20 > When there are large transfers on the onboard SATA controller the re(4) > controller starts to have packet loss. >=20 > This packet loss does not stop when there is no more load on ata(4). > With another high load (like doing a full-system backup) the packet loss > keeps increasing up to 90% and more - the system is not accesible over > the internet anymore, packets get lost, SSH sessions or http requests > get stale, I have to restart the system. One thing you could check is if the network cards are sharing an irq with other hardware; "ps -xa | grep '\[irq'" If so, you could try to enable device polling(4) with ifconfig. The sysctl kern.polling.enable must be set to 1, and the kernel must be compiled with 'options DEVICE_POLLING'. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --s/l3CgOIzMHHjg/5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHSxPlEnfvsMMhpyURAtcZAKCrKWER/L6jGoPCu8krlfIsKB4tTgCgmrnN r+2YfC+Z4rVWpWwpdSncUbI= =L2vz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --s/l3CgOIzMHHjg/5--