From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 19:22:53 2008 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 56CC81065688 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:22:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabriele.cecchetti@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f13.google.com (mail-gx0-f13.google.com [209.85.217.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A1F8FC16 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:22:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabriele.cecchetti@gmail.com) Received: by gxk6 with SMTP id 6so574682gxk.19 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:22:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:reply-to :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:from; bh=8TYkMzbODjQiUyFYn1CAfU/SgRaPb/VZgAE5TPB9j58=; b=iIGZtuCUh/8ncGfVEM5Qafjk/AZKj/myBQDXeJ20AwnCJQTtL2DQCaEJjfsoprQZvf DJGHv+UgLtLOYS0AfwVOZqNsU5sdZZYxrsy0t28Pb+DTFWGDuqdHMSxq2BdUV790cD/k SeausOnOIPz0gHlH8rjBBMTqminBM6Qidpzk4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=IJx4COiy5njIuOKEbwNkZLlUUIVibPVHg54cw4bVnVxy3Y8d1kFWyKlmqJUYTn+2Pl udA4SZ/PF08mGYgest9LP/DBpbGpnnAOQ8iMhnpnYobU3TnYn/UWNnNKIpXQY6LDJxlp 0kZ05jWn0Ogd31BstDs3TzvA7brr8SttxHQhw= Received: by 10.142.109.16 with SMTP id h16mr593515wfc.145.1225997118043; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:45:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.110? (S0106001884a238dd.vc.shawcable.net [24.80.22.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 31sm2950486wff.16.2008.11.06.10.45.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:45:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49133B35.9040603@sssup.it> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:45:09 -0800 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Gabriele Cecchetti Cc: Fabio Checconi Subject: Panics and freeze using age0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: g.cecchetti@sssup.it List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:22:53 -0000 I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE over Asus P5Q motherboard. Such board comes with an nic requiring age0 driver. When the nic is under load, such trasferring big amount of data over gigabit connection (let's say some gigabyte backups), the computer hangs, sometimes with panic, sometimes freezing. Before that i was using an Intel nic with em0 driver and 7.0-Stable#2.. and that configuration was really stable. Looking at the backtrace we found that the page fault happened during pmap operations (sorry I've not the backtrace anymore to attach to this mail). Another problem with age0 driver was that when the machine boot, the nic goes up and down and then remain down. Everytime, gaining control of it was a mess. Anyone with similar experience ? age0 driver is well tested for production enviroment or not ? Is better to buy another Intel card and going on using em0 driver ? Any other problems affecting this release just now ? And, last question, 7.1-PRERELEASE should belong to the STABLE tree ? In that case why during the last two months is so instable for production enviroment ? Maybe I'm wrong, so I accept suggestions. Cheers Gabriele