On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 04:40:08PM +0200, Per-Olov Sjvholm wrote:
> 
> 
> On 19 maj 2012, at 08:11, Garry Dolley <gdol...@arpnetworks.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 01:54:54AM +0200, Per-Olov Sjvholm wrote:
> >> On 17 maj 2012, at 12:53, Garry Dolley wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 03:19:07AM -0700, Garry Dolley wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:13:30AM -0400, Simon Perreault wrote:
> >>>>> On 2012-05-11 04:15, Garry Dolley wrote:
> >>>>>> I now have an amd64 test VM set up, where I installed stock 5.0.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> I ran a lot of traffic over em0 without any timeouts.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> That's expected. 5.0 has been running without issue for me for a long
> >> time.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> I also have been trying several -current kernels.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> As of:
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>  OpenBSD 5.1-current (GENERIC) #205: Wed Mar 28 21:40:45 MDT 2012
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> I don't see any em0 timeouts.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> I will continue to try newer ones and report back here...
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Why not just test 5.1? Problems have been reported against 5.1, not
> >>>>> -current.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I now have a stock 5.1 test VM set up.
> >>>> 
> >>>> OpenBSD 5.1 (GENERIC) #181: Sun Feb 12 09:35:53 MST 2012
> >>>>     dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
> >>>> 
> >>>> I don't see any timeouts.  I grabbed the ports tree via curl several
> >>>> times and have been slaving away at it over SSH.  I don't notice
> >>>> anything wrong.
> >>>> 
> >>>> So, perhaps this issue does not appear in stock 5.1, but in a newer
> >>>> kernel.  I'll try something newer soon...
> >>> 
> >>> I have tried the following newer kernels:
> >>> 
> >>> bsd.20120330
> >>> bsd.20120419
> >>> bsd.20120427
> >>> bsd.20120516
> >>> 
> >>> I still can't reproduce the problem.
> >>> 
> >>> I have disabled mpbios on all these kernels, forgot to mention that.
> >>> 
> >>> I will leave this be for now; will pick it up again if any new
> >>> information should arise.
> >>> 
> >>> --
> >>> Garry Dolley
> >>> ARP Networks, Inc. | http://www.arpnetworks.com | (818) 206-0181
> >>> Data center, VPS, and IP Transit solutions
> >>> Member Los Angeles County REACT, Unit 336 | WQGK336
> >>> Blog http://scie.nti.st
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I have a running 4.9 release + patches ( i.e 4.9 stable) working perfect. 
> >> When
> >> Updated to 5.1 release + patches I have real problems with watchdog timeout
> >> resets on my intel nic:s. Same hardware, but just different OpenBSD 
> >> version.
> >> 
> >> I have tried a bunch of kernels from Stuart Henderson (Broken after 
> >> 4.9.....).
> >> I have also recompiled the 5.1 stable kernel with most  versions of the
> >> if_em.c driver. I have compiled and tried the following...
> >> (note that the userland was 5.1 stable with all kernel tests)
> >> 
> >> bsd-5.1-stable
> >> bsd-5.1-stable_plus_if_em.c-1.249
> >> bsd-5.1-stable_plus_if_em.c-1.250
> >> bsd-5.1-stable_plus_if_em.c-1.251
> >> bsd-5.1-stable_plus_if_em.c-1.252
> >> bsd-5.1-stable_plus_if_em.c-1.253
> >> bsd-5.1-stable_plus_if_em.c-1.254
> >> bsd-5.1-stable_plus_if_em.c-1.263
> >> 
> >> Watchdog timeout resets on all versions.....
> >> 
> >> NOTE that the Watchdog timeout reset appears in version 1.249 of if_em.c as
> >> well. And that version is default in 4.9 stable which works fantastic. So 
> >> if I
> >> haven't done anything totally wrong it must be related to something else in
> >> the kernel. So.... my nic hardware and the kvm bios is the same. And an
> >> if_em.c version that works in 4.9 is tried. ????????
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I can see above that you got rid of the problem by testing the same 
> >> version as
> >> me.. But you use AMD and I use i386.
> >> Also... I have a firewall with 2 nic:s. Often ONE nic works but the other
> >> gives watchdog timeout resets and wont work.
> >> 
> >> Any clues?
> > 
> > I don't have any clues.  I wasn't able to reproduce the problem,
> > even though one customer I have who also upgraded experienced this
> > behavior.  They did not do a fresh install (that I'm aware), but
> > upgraded (similar to you).  I'm not sure what the previous version
> > was.  They have one NIC and I believe run amd64.
> > 
> > The only difference that I can see is that on a fresh 5.1 install,
> > there is no issue.  But if you upgrade from a previous release, then
> > the issue *might* appear.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Garry Dolley
> > ARP Networks, Inc. | http://www.arpnetworks.com | (818) 206-0181
> > Data center, VPS, and IP Transit solutions
> > Member Los Angeles County REACT, Unit 336 | WQGK336
> > Blog http://scie.nti.st
> > 
> 
> I have a fresh 5.1 rel plus stable patches. No upgrade...

What happened before you applied the stable patches?  On the fresh
5.1 release without any changes, that is...

-- 
Garry Dolley
ARP Networks, Inc. | http://www.arpnetworks.com | (818) 206-0181
Data center, VPS, and IP Transit solutions
Member Los Angeles County REACT, Unit 336 | WQGK336
Blog http://scie.nti.st

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