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Date:      Sat, 08 Apr 2006 15:07:41 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        shih@math.jussieu.fr, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disappointed-new
Message-ID:  <6.2.3.4.0.20060408150025.099369a8@64.7.153.2>
In-Reply-To: <20060407121452.GO1784@math.jussieu.fr>
References:  <20060407121452.GO1784@math.jussieu.fr>

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At 08:14 AM 07/04/2006, Albert Shih wrote:

>         The 6-stable is installed on the server on begin of February 2006
>
>Problems :
>
>
>
>                 bge0 watchdog timeout problems
>                 bge0 watchdog timeout problems


There have been a number of improvements to the bge driver in late 
Feb / early March.  I had a busy BIND server that had those errors on 
its bge nic which went away by updating to something past March 7th
ie

[tyan-1u]% ident /usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c:
      $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c,v 1.91.2.13 2006/03/04 
09:34:48 oleg Exp $
[tyan-1u]%




>         Again after some days the .... em0 interface don't work. And this
>         time the message on console is
>                 em0 watchdog timeout problems
>
Are the interface stats clean ? Take a look at the switch port and 
make sure there is not some duplex mismatch or flow control issue.


>         Now I'm running all interface in polling mode. And...I hope it's
>         work...(running from 2 days).

If you are hitting livelock then polling will help on the busy 
NICS.  When in non polling mode, what sort of load avg were you 
seeing spent in system


         ---Mike 




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