On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Thrash Dude <thrash.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Seems to be a rather common issue with the e1000 module. I searched the > > archives back to 2005. Plenty of reports, no solutions. > > There are some solutions, one of which is to try loading the driver > with TxDescriptorStep=4 TxDescriptors=1024
Hi Jesse thanks for the response! > > > for some of the recent times have you been streaming using cifs or > NFS? what version of NFS? what client machine /os did you test with? > What streaming software were you using to play the movie on the > remote machine? MythTV is the streaming software. Though, the Tx Hangs happen with cp, scp, even just browsing the 'net. Client/Server is NFS V3, also CIFS. I tried using CIFS instead of NFS to rule out protocol issues. Also tried different NFS mount options. One did not perform better than the other. All systems are Slackware. I have not tried any other Linux systems. If you can recommend a Live CD I could do that. Or - if really needed - I can do a quick install of another OS on a spare partition if it would help. I have other older Motherboard chipsets available if that would help as well. > so maybe its not actually related to traffic levels? I don't believe so. Nor is it related to CPU usage. Top can report 0,0,0 or 3,3.5,4. All other equipment appears to functioning optimally. As a precaution I did memtest all RAM sticks for 3 passes. > > This is actually a promising development because we might actually > have something close to that system here. What slot did you plug in? > what is the barcode number on your adapter? XXXXXX-XXX. The other > (bad) option is that since the problem follows the adapter it could be > the adapter. It was the bottom PCI slot with both mother boards (GA-MA785GM-US2H, GA-EP45-DS3L) Numbers on the card - PN SN: 95P2157 YL10256AE0N6 Manufactured for IBM by Intel FRU 95P2156 Another sticker has - 000E0C****** (MAC ID ;) ) 416SC D26000-003 > > have you double checked cooling of the NIC? Do you have another > identical NIC you can try? You can probably get warranty support for > the one you have, to get a replacement. With the last Tx Hang unit, I promptly shut the PC down and removed the card. It was not warm to the touch. The PC has decent ventilation. > > wow, thats a mess, please fix your mail client next time. What I do > see in the above is is appears to be a legitimate tx hang. We have > some debug code you can run that can help us diagnose, would you be > able to run that? Sorry about that. That message was posted with Pan VIA GMANE. Sure I'd be more than willing to run some debug code. > > If I upgrade to version e1000-8.0.19 Tx Unit Hang appears immediately > > after the e1000 module is loaded. > > but does the part work at that point or is it completely dead? If I rmmod, modprobe, rc.inet1 restart, I do get a link for a few seconds/minutes, before it hangs again. > > > > > Using ethtool to turn off rx,tx,sg,tso, and gso things appear to work > > better. But - in that case, a $5 r8169 performs just as well. > > > > Full dmesg in next post. > > Still waiting for the next post... please also include the output of > ethtool -S eth0 after the next hang you get. As noted above, I went ahead and removed the card for now. Latter tonight, first thing in the morning I will put the Intel Nic back in. And I'll link to pastebin.ca for the dmesg so it will hopefully be legible. I do have /var/log/messages - and did notice - [ 2893.699264] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:261 dev_watchdog+0x236/0x250() [ 2893.699266] Hardware name: GA-MA785GM-US2H [ 2893.699268] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (e1000): transmit queue 0 timed out [ 2893.699270] Modules linked in: vmnet vmblock vsock vmci vmmon snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss ipv6 fuse joydev usbhid hid snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_timer nvidia(P) firewire_ohci snd soundcore ohci_hcd e1000 firewire_core ssb mmc_core snd_page_alloc crc_itu_t i2c_piix4 ehci_hcd agpgart rtc_cmos processor rtc_core rtc_lib thermal i2c_core thermal_sys psmouse serio_raw button hwmon evdev sg I can also put that to pastebin if you'd like. ( Off to find my receipt for possible RMA ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
