Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Brian J. Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:13 AM Subject: Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:22:44 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-16 Thread Brian J. Conway
watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:22:44 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found with some of the intel MBs that the latest BIOS update actually causes trouble. Don't be afraid to try back-flashing to an older BIOS update. Intel has all

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-15 Thread Brian J. Conway
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:22:44 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found with some of the intel MBs that the latest BIOS update actually causes trouble. Don't be afraid to try back-flashing to an older BIOS update. Intel has all the BIOS versions up on their site for each

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 7:57 AM Subject: Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not related with NICs

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
reboots from kernel panics. Replacing the NIC solved it. It's possible, but I've tried 3 different 3c905C's between the two (top-most) slots I'm using for them, and they all have the same symptom, set up speed and half/full duplex manually and it should fix a problem. at least did for me

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-11 Thread Brian J. Conway
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:57:59 -0500 Brian J. Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not related with NICs, but exclusively with the motherboard. Interesting. I

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/03/07, Brian J. Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:57:59 -0500 Brian J. Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not related with NICs,

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-11 Thread Brian J. Conway
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:16:22 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No luck, got the first timeout shortly (25 min) after boot without ACPI, again while mostly idle and I'm not able to repeat it more than once a day or so: Mar 12 01:49:19 imogen kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-10 Thread José García Juanino
El sábado 10 de marzo a las 02:45:23 CET, Brian J. Conway escribió: I'm trying to track down a watchdog timeout that shows on average once a day, usually at a random time when idle. The system has two 3c905C NICs and does ipfw+natd duty with a couple services, and spends most of its time

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-10 Thread Brian J. Conway
I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not related with NICs, but exclusively with the motherboard. Interesting. I hadn't thought of that, but I am using ACPI now where I was not on 4.x. I'll give

Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-09 Thread Brian J. Conway
I'm trying to track down a watchdog timeout that shows on average once a day, usually at a random time when idle. The system has two 3c905C NICs and does ipfw+natd duty with a couple services, and spends most of its time idle, both CPU and bandwidth-wise. Nothing out of the ordinary happens when