Rony,
This sounds toe me like a driver bug . The sky2 drivers had many
problems and many patches, by Stephen Hemminger and others.
I would suggest to check if this problem occurs with 2.6.20 or higher
kernel (on this machine, or, if not possible, and just to verify that
this indeed is the problem , on another machine with both 2.6.20 (or
higher) and the kernel version you have, and that nic on it.
Regards,
Rami Rosen
On Oct 28, 2007 1:49 PM, ronys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Under heavy traffic, I'm getting the above syslog message every day or two.
Unfortunately, the failure is far from graceful: ifconfig up/down doesn't
help, and the system is occasionally hung so that it's unreachable via other
interfaces, forcing a reboot.
Some more details:
Dual core 3.4GHz Intel CPU
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.18.5abc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115
(prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #3 SMP Fri Sep 7 21:32:00 IDT 2007
# lspci -v
[...]
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E
Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (rev 19)
Subsystem: SysKonnect Unknown device 4340
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 74
Memory at d002 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 6000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/1 Enable+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
[...]
# cat /var/log/messages
[...]
Oct 26 09:39:45 abc kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth3: transmit timed out
Oct 26 09:39:45 abc kernel: sky2 hardware hung? flushing
Oct 26 09:48:35 abc kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth3: transmit timed out
Oct 26 09:48:35 abc kernel: sky2 status report lost?
[...]
A quick google didn't find anything blindingly relevant. Any ideas,
suggestions or hints humbly accepted.
Thanks,
Rony
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