Re: 7-STABLE Watchdog Timeout
On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Jeremy Karlson wrote: > I'm still looking into my watchdog timeout with me re card. I'm > starting to wonder if my problem is in any way related to the > discussion back in September 2006 starting with this post: > > "6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2" > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/028792.htm >l > > It seems that under certain conditions and loads, a network interface > with a shared interrupt would stop responding until the watchdog > resets it. This seems to be very similar to what I see. At the time, > they seemed mostly concerned about fixing the em driver; I'm using re. > > Unfortunately though, I can't seem to find what the resolution to this > was, and if it could be related to the failure I'm seeing. Does > anyone know what happened with that problem? > > -- Jeremy If I remember correctly, there were two problems: 1) there was a race in the interrupt handler (this affected all interrupt handlers), 2) em used the now obsolete if_timer to implement it's watchdog timeout. This timer is unreliable. Both items have been fixed, so this shouldn't be related to your problem. #2 wasn't fixed in all drivers, but if you are affected you should see a warning on startup stating the use of the obsolete timer. I believe if_re was converted some time ago. Note that in theory watchdog timeouts could also mean broken hardware, bad connection to PCI bus or other intermittent hw failure. I would try reseating the card in another slot. -- Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 7-STABLE Watchdog Timeout
I'm still looking into my watchdog timeout with me re card. I'm starting to wonder if my problem is in any way related to the discussion back in September 2006 starting with this post: "6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2" http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/028792.html It seems that under certain conditions and loads, a network interface with a shared interrupt would stop responding until the watchdog resets it. This seems to be very similar to what I see. At the time, they seemed mostly concerned about fixing the em driver; I'm using re. Unfortunately though, I can't seem to find what the resolution to this was, and if it could be related to the failure I'm seeing. Does anyone know what happened with that problem? -- Jeremy On 1-Jun-08, at 12:02, Jeremy Karlson wrote: Jos, I tried setting "PNP OS" to both "YES" and "NO." Neither made any sort of difference. As for your suggestion on the web site: That seemed pretty likely to me, but disabling ACPI and APIC didn't make any difference either. Thanks for the ideas though. -- Jeremy On 31-May-08, at 23:20, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Jeremy, Perhaps this link could give you the solution to your problem: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/bsd-17/rl0-watchdog-timeout-519599/ regards, Jos Jeremy Karlson wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of moving a Subversion server from a 5-STABLE machine to a freshly installed 7-STABLE machine. I've moved the network card (a Linksys EG1032v3, RTL8169S/8110S/8211B based) from the old machine (where it worked before) to this new machine. Now, I get: re0: watchdog timeout ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] " ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] " ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 7-STABLE Watchdog Timeout
Jos, I tried setting "PNP OS" to both "YES" and "NO." Neither made any sort of difference. As for your suggestion on the web site: That seemed pretty likely to me, but disabling ACPI and APIC didn't make any difference either. Thanks for the ideas though. -- Jeremy On 31-May-08, at 23:20, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Jeremy, Perhaps this link could give you the solution to your problem: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/bsd-17/rl0-watchdog-timeout-519599/ regards, Jos Jeremy Karlson wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of moving a Subversion server from a 5-STABLE machine to a freshly installed 7-STABLE machine. I've moved the network card (a Linksys EG1032v3, RTL8169S/8110S/8211B based) from the old machine (where it worked before) to this new machine. Now, I get: re0: watchdog timeout ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] " ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 7-STABLE Watchdog Timeout
Jeremy, Perhaps this link could give you the solution to your problem: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/bsd-17/rl0-watchdog-timeout-519599/ regards, Jos Jeremy Karlson wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of moving a Subversion server from a 5-STABLE machine to a freshly installed 7-STABLE machine. I've moved the network card (a Linksys EG1032v3, RTL8169S/8110S/8211B based) from the old machine (where it worked before) to this new machine. Now, I get: re0: watchdog timeout ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 7-STABLE Watchdog Timeout
Jeremy, Do you set 'Plug and Play BIOS: YES' in your bios settings? Switch 'PnP BIOS' to NO and everything might work fine. -- Jos Jeremy Karlson wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of moving a Subversion server from a 5-STABLE machine to a freshly installed 7-STABLE machine. I've moved the network card (a Linksys EG1032v3, RTL8169S/8110S/8211B based) from the old machine (where it worked before) to this new machine. Now, I get: re0: watchdog timeout ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
