On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:22:23PM +0200, Yamagi Burmeister wrote:
All for boxes are unstable if the Attansic NIC is in use, no one of them
survived more than 60 minutes of ~20mb/s network traffic. I managed to
get some coredumps and extracted the backtraces. Since everytime one of
the boxes paniced I got different panic message and a different backtrace
with a different subsystem involved I suspected broken hardware. I
plugged a em(4) NIC into the PCI slot and wasn't able to reproduce the
problem, in fact the boxes run rock solid for several days. Next I set
up a Windows 7, installed the Attansic vendor driver and did another
run. All went smooth, no crash for nearly 24 hours.
My guess is kernel memory corruption by age(4), which would explain all
the different backtraces and the different panic messages. This problem
is reproducible in at least FreeBSD 7.4 and 8.2 and with TSO4 enabled
and disabled. I'm willing to debug this, but I really don't know how. So
any help or a pointer into the right direction would be appreciated.
AFAIK this is the first report for possible memory corruption
triggered by age(4). I'm still not sure whether it's caused by
age(4) but you can disable RX checksum offloading and see whether
that makes any difference.
Since I have no longer access to the hardware it would be even
better if you can tell me which traffic pattern triggered the
issue.
Okay, I did a test run with RX checksum, TX checksum and both disabled.
In all three cases the crash occurs within about 20 minutes. I'm either
not sure that age(4) is the problem but it has definedly something to do
with the problem, since with another nic driver the same scenario is
rock solid...
The workload: It's a NFS3 server (FreeBSDs non-experimental
implementation), serving and receiving file with about 250 to 500
megabytes at about 20mb/s. The clients are FreeBSD 7 and 8 systems and
are mounting the shares via TCP. The connection is 1000mbit/s via a
"dumb" gigabit switch.
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