Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:02:34 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2 Message-ID: <20060927190234.GA66755@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20060927183216.GA8267@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <451A1375.5080202@gneto.com> <20060927071538.GF22229@e-Gitt.NET> <451A4189.5020906@samsco.org> <20060927094509.GB75104@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <451A71B6.6040201@crc.u-strasbg.fr> <20060927132555.GB83422@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20060927183216.GA8267@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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--J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:32:16AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:25:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > Hi! > >=20 > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote: > >=20 > > > it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes > > > we see some "watchdog timeout" in the log with a bge card, but maybe = it's > > > not the same problem... : > >=20 > > As far as I know the watchdog timeouts are _supposed_ to be > > mostly harmless, i.e. recoverable. > >=20 > > Some people experience additional complete hangs of network > > communications, that may or may not be related to them. >=20 > I had "watchdog timeouts" occur on a small network setup, for a: >=20 > ssh remote "cd /usr && tar xf - ports" | tar xvf - >=20 > and this resulted in a pretty sparse ports tree on the local drive. > Lots of stuff being dropped. Shifting a single big tar-ball worked > though. I'm highly skeptical of this claim. It's possible the connection failed part way through and thus you didn't get all your files, but you wouldn't get random dropouts. TCP doesn't work that way. -- Brooks --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFGsrKXY6L6fI4GtQRAp6BAKDRgwAAL4vMivVnE3OFAM3fs0YANQCeL7n5 n8qjZJaShacB6s32XB6dy/Q= =k1vE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf--
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