From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 20 12:16:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5515F16A473 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:16:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from msrv.matik.com.br (msrv.matik.com.br [200.152.83.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9CEF13C455 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:16:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from anb.p.matik.com.br (anb.p.matik.com.br [200.152.83.34] (may be forged)) by msrv.matik.com.br (8.14.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lBKB2avb062468 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:02:36 -0200 (BRT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) From: JoaoBR Organization: Infomatik To: current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:01:03 -0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712200901.03963.joao@matik.com.br> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.91.2, clamav-milter version 0.91.2 on msrv.matik.com.br X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: em drv troubles X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:16:27 -0000 I believe the em man page needs a revision, the tunable sections referres t= o=20 hw.em. and should be dev.em.=20 hw.em.tx_int.delay defaults to 64 according to the man page but my server s= how=20 66 as for other values too: dev.em.1.tx_int_delay: 66 dev.em.1.rx_abs_int_delay: 66 dev.em.1.tx_abs_int_delay: 66 what is correct and how much does it matter? I get sporadic freezes, sometimes after an hour and sometimes after some da= ys=20 of uptime, with no log and rare times a panic which then point to em in th= e=20 kernel but can not get a core dump, seems the machine freezes before the=20 panic msg ends I run amd64 with opterons and tyan MBs, to check if this has something to d= o I=20 could repeat the problem on AM2 X2 MB with Sata disk but same nics and low= =20 traffic (1-2MB/s). somebody has an idea here? =2D-=20 Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br