Akemi,
Thanks for the link. I already researched that one. The systems in
question do not have SCSI and buying new NIC cards will not work.
-connie sieh
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Connie Sieh <[email protected]> wrote:
There are lots of reports of issues like this for tg3 but most reports end
in "did not hear from requester so closing" or "Fedora Core X is not
supported any more so closing". Does anyone know of a real solution to this
problem. Reading all the bugzilla and Google results for this problem make
my head hurt :-) . Note that the error message
"tg3_stop_block timed out" can be a generic message thus having many causes.
We have been experiencing intermittent network failures on systems running
SLF47 2.6.9-78.0.1 kernel/tg3 3.86 driver . They waiting for the tcp to
finish, which never happens. The failures are load-related.
This error happened from time to time over the life of these nodes
but they were operating more or less stably under SLF45/x86_64, tg3 3.77
driver.
There are reports of this issue for RHEL 5 too.
I see one success story in the CentOS forum here (note #4):
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&order=ASC&topic_id=15932&forum=39
May not be a solution for all cases but at lease something to look at.
Akemi
