Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-04 Thread Philippe Pegon
Hi, On this subject, does somebody know why there is no pending issues listed at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/todo.html ? -- Philippe Pegon Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:34:16PM +1000, John Marshall wrote: $ dmesg | grep bge bge0: mem 0xe820-0xe820 irq 17

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-04 Thread Martin Nilsson
Jeremy Chadwick skrev: An alternate idea: remove SCHED_ULE from the GENERIC kernel config and instead make a ULE config which can be included (similar to SMP and PAE). The problem with ULE is that it works so well that you enable it and forget it. Then a couple of months later you find somethi

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-04 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Hi all, I have few servers that have Intel and Broadcom (em&bge) giga NICs running FreeBSD RELENG_6 (from 6.1-R to 6.2-PRERELEASE). And (luckily) there are no such problems like watchdog timeouts. So may be something is different in our configurations, do you want my kernel confs or something e

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:59:09AM +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote: > Can we have a commit (at least to STABLE) that adds a big fat message > during boot that goes something like: > > ### You are using SCHED_ULE scheduler ### > ### SCHED_ULE is still considered to be highly

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-04 Thread Martin Nilsson
Scott Long skrev: In any case, SCHED_ULE is still considered to be highly experimental. > Hopefully it will get some more attention in the near future to > bring it closer to production quality. Can we have a commit (at least to STABLE) that adds a big fat message during boot that goes somethi

RE: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-03 Thread John Marshall
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > As far as SCHED_ULE goes, if you have issues with it, use SCHED_4BSD. > > Now, about watchdog timeouts in general -- there's a pending issue > which is still under investigation. Please see this thread: > That was the "em" thread to which I referred in my original pos

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-03 Thread Scott Long
David G Lawrence wrote: Very interesting data point. I wonder if this accounts for some of the inconsistency in the reporting from others. In any case, SCHED_ULE is still considered to be highly experimental. Hopefully it will get some more attention in the near future to bring it closer to pr

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-03 Thread David G Lawrence
> Very interesting data point. I wonder if this accounts for some of the > inconsistency in the reporting from others. In any case, SCHED_ULE is > still considered to be highly experimental. Hopefully it will get some > more attention in the near future to bring it closer to production > quality

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:34:16PM +1000, John Marshall wrote: > $ dmesg | grep bge > bge0: mem > 0xe820-0xe820 irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci4 > miibus1: on bge0 > bge0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:cd:e7:51:ba > bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting > bge0: link state changed to DOWN > bge0: link

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-03 Thread Scott Long
John Marshall wrote: $ dmesg | grep bge bge0: mem 0xe820-0xe820 irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci4 miibus1: on bge0 bge0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:cd:e7:51:ba bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting bge0: link state changed to DOWN bge0: link state changed to UP I initially pronounced the network

Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-03 Thread John Marshall
$ dmesg | grep bge bge0: mem 0xe820-0xe820 irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci4 miibus1: on bge0 bge0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:cd:e7:51:ba bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting bge0: link state changed to DOWN bge0: link state changed to UP I initially pronounced the network cable dead and replace