Hello,
I have got the following problem with FreeBSD, which occured with 5.4-
RELEASE
(installed from CD) as well as 6-BETA4 (since I learned how to
upgrade/compile
system and kernel):
When I copy large (or many) files (like mpeg-movies or my mp3
collection) over the
local network via scp the system freezes very often, where freezes
means that the
computer does not react to keyboard or mouse input and is not
reachable from
the network. I can only do a hard reset.
Perhaps it is important that these freezes never happen when fetching
large files
from the internet (like distfiles), but only in the local network
(DSL router with the
FreeBSD host connected with network cable and my iBook connected over
WLAN).
This happened with the GENERIC kernel config as well as my own.
Anyway, here is the config I currently use:
machine i386
cpu I686_CPU
ident LOIS
options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler
options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread
preemption
options INET# InterNETworking
options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates
support
options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem
options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem
options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3
[KEEP THIS!]
options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5
options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory
options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues
options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-
time extensions
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV# install a CDEV entry in /dev
options AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT# Print register bitfields in
debug
options AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT# Print register bitfields in
debug
options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive.
device apic# I/O APIC
device isa
device eisa
device pci
device fdc
device ata
device atadisk # ATA disk drives
device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering
device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
device da # Direct Access (disks)
device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller
device atkbd # AT keyboard
device psm # PS/2 mouse
device vga # VGA video card driver
device splash # Splash screen and screen saver support
device sc
device agp # support several AGP chipsets
device npx
device apm
device pmtimer
# ISA Ethernet NICs. pccard NICs included.
device lnc # NE2100, NE32-VL Lance Ethernet cards
device loop# Network loopback
device mem # Memory and kernel memory devices
device io # I/O device
device random # Entropy device
device ether # Ethernet support
device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device bpf # Berkeley packet filter
device uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface
device usb # USB Bus (required)
device ugen# Generic
device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus
and da
device sound
device snd_sbc
device snd_sb16
What I'm curious about is that the driver for the network card (lnc,
which I used
because the GENERIC kernel used it automatically and it worked) is in
the section
for ISA cards, but IIRC it is a PCI card.
dmesg says:
lnc0: PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter port 0xe800-0xe81f mem
0xf0004000-0xf000401f irq 9 at device 13.0 on pci0
lnc0: Attaching PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter
lnc0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
lnc0: Ethernet address: 00:80:1e:08:0f:75
lnc0: if_start running deferred for Giant
lnc0: PCnet-PCI
Also looks like PCI, doesn't it?
I also sometimes get messages like lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive
buffer.
May this have something to do with the lock-ups? There is not always
such a
message before the system freezes and not every message leads to a
freeze, but
they are both related to copying large amounts of data (over the
local network).
I'm kind of new to BSD (have some experience with Gentoo Linux), so I
do not
really know, which further information I could give.
Thank you for any hints, what I could try to resolve this.
--
Benjamin Braatz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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