From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 8 08:53:41 2009 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 C87C71065673 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:53:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xernet@hotmail.it) Received: from bay0-omc1-s39.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s39.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.111]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF8498FC1E for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:53:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xernet@hotmail.it) Received: from BAY126-DS4 ([65.55.131.31]) by bay0-omc1-s39.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:41:41 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [79.24.91.253] X-Originating-Email: [xernet@hotmail.it] Message-ID: From: "xer" To: References: <20090407120032.633E410656D5@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090407120032.633E410656D5@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:41:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8064.206 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8064.206 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Apr 2009 08:41:41.0906 (UTC) FILETIME=[D71CCF20:01C9B825] Subject: watchdog timeout X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: xer List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:53:42 -0000 Hello I have some problems with 3Com nics, after a upgrade from 5.5-STABLE to 6.4-STABLE. This machine has two 3com nics (one is LAN other is WAN) and i see too much "watchdog timeout" on both cards. This on/off up/down on cards, affect the interrupt to clients that are downloading from apache web server, especially on large files. -------------------------------------------- xer:/root# dmesg xl1: watchdog timeout xl1: link state changed to DOWN xl1: link state changed to UP xl1: watchdog timeout xl1: link state changed to DOWN xl1: link state changed to UP xl1: watchdog timeout xl1: link state changed to DOWN xl1: link state changed to UP --------------------------------------------- xer:/root# cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep xl xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem 0xfceffc00-0xfceffc7f irq 23 at device 11.0 on pci2 miibus0: on xl0 xlphy0: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on miibus0 xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:e0:04:1b xl1: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xe880-0xe8ff mem 0xfceff800-0xfceff87f irq 20 at device 12.0 on pci2 miibus1: on xl1 xlphy1: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on miibus1 xlphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl1: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:df:fe:ed --------------------------------------------- Another doubt would be my kernel config, maybe there is something wrong that i cannot see, i'll post at the end of this post, 'cause is too long. As you can see, the cards are 3c905C-TX model. Someone told me to change drivers, but i cannot understand this advice. I got same errors with same cards but with another mainboard, same problem, watchdog appears after an upgrade from 5.4-STABLE to 6.4-STABLE. I don't think that to change nic's pci slots, will solve the problem, i think that maybe change the nics would resolve the matter, but i cannot access to both FreeBSD phisically, cause the boxes are too far from me (about 3500 km). I'm asking you some advices, and i can i fix this problem. p.s. with both 5.4 or 5.5 old kernel, the nics was fine. Regards Xer ----------kernel config ----------- xer:/root# cat /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ASUS # # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.429.2.18 2008/07/28 02:20:29 yongari Exp $ # # custom kernel ASUS 01.15.2009 machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident ASUS options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption options INET # InterNETworking options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big directories options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device options NFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client options NFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server options NFSLOCKD # Network Lock Manager options NFS_ROOT # NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS) options PSEUDOFS # Pseudo-filesystem framework options GEOM_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5 options KTRACE # ktrace(1) support options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive. device apic # I/O APIC # Bus support. device eisa device pci # Floppy drives device fdc # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device ataraid # ATA RAID drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives device atapist # ATAPI tape drives options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller device atkbd # AT keyboard device psm # PS/2 mouse device kbdmux # keyboard multiplexer device vga # VGA video card driver device splash # Splash screen and screen saver support # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console device sc device agp # support several AGP chipsets # Add suspend/resume support for the i8254. device pmtimer # Serial (COM) ports device sio # 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports # Parallel port device ppc device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt # Printer device plip # TCP/IP over parallel device ppi # Parallel port interface device # PCI Ethernet NICs. device de # DEC/Intel DC21x4x (``Tulip'') device em # Intel PRO/1000 adapter Gigabit Ethernet Card device ixgb # Intel PRO/10GbE Ethernet Card device txp # 3Com 3cR990 (``Typhoon'') device vx # 3Com 3c590, 3c595 (``Vortex'') # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code. # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs! device miibus # MII bus support device bce # Broadcom BCM5706/BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet device bfe # Broadcom BCM440x 10/100 Ethernet device bge # Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet device dc # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes device fxp # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558) device jme # JMicron JMC250 Gigabit/JMC260 Fast Ethernet device lge # Level 1 LXT1001 gigabit Ethernet device msk # Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet device nge # NatSemi DP83820 gigabit Ethernet device nve # nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking device pcn # AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100(precedence over 'lnc') device re # RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S device rl # RealTek 8129/8139 device sf # Adaptec AIC-6915 (``Starfire'') device sis # Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 device sk # SysKonnect SK-984x & SK-982x gigabit Ethernet device ste # Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) device stge # Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 gigabit Ethernet device ti # Alteon Networks Tigon I/II gigabit Ethernet device tl # Texas Instruments ThunderLAN device tx # SMC EtherPower II (83c170 ``EPIC'') device vge # VIA VT612x gigabit Ethernet device vr # VIA Rhine, Rhine II device wb # Winbond W89C840F device xl # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'') # ISA Ethernet NICs. pccard NICs included. device cs # Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0 NIC # 'device ed' requires 'device miibus' device ed # NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards device ex # Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and Pro/10+ device ep # Etherlink III based cards device fe # Fujitsu MB8696x based cards device ie # EtherExpress 8/16, 3C507, StarLAN 10 etc. device lnc # NE2100, NE32-VL Lance Ethernet cards device sn # SMC's 9000 series of Ethernet chips device xe # Xircom pccard Ethernet # Pseudo devices. device loop # Network loopback device random # Entropy device device ether # Ethernet support device sl # Kernel SLIP device ppp # Kernel PPP device tun # Packet tunnel. device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) device md # Memory "disks" device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling device faith # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation) # The `bpf' device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter. # Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this! # Note that 'bpf' is required for DHCP. device bpf # Berkeley packet filter # Firewall options IPFIREWALL # enable ipfirewall (required for dummynet) options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE # enable firewall output logging to syslogd(8) options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=0 # limit firewall verbosity output options IPDIVERT # divert sockets options DUMMYNET # enable dummynet operation options HZ=1000 # set the timer granularity