On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:32:16AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:25:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote: > > > > > it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes > > > we see some "watchdog timeout" in the log with a bge card, but maybe it's > > > not the same problem... : > > > > As far as I know the watchdog timeouts are _supposed_ to be > > mostly harmless, i.e. recoverable. > > > > Some people experience additional complete hangs of network > > communications, that may or may not be related to them. > > I had "watchdog timeouts" occur on a small network setup, for a: > > ssh remote "cd /usr && tar xf - ports" | tar xvf - > > and this resulted in a pretty sparse ports tree on the local drive. > Lots of stuff being dropped. Shifting a single big tar-ball worked > though.
I'm highly skeptical of this claim. It's possible the connection failed part way through and thus you didn't get all your files, but you wouldn't get random dropouts. TCP doesn't work that way. -- Brooks
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