On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:10:43AM +0100, Martin Matuska wrote: > Hi, > > I am using a MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital (MS-7368) mainboard with 7.0-BETA3 in > amd64 mode at a german dedicated server provider. > The mainboard has a onboard re(4) ethernet controller. I experience a > very strange behaiviour: > > When there are large transfers on the onboard SATA controller the re(4) > controller starts to have packet loss. > > This packet loss does not stop when there is no more load on ata(4). > With another high load (like doing a full-system backup) the packet loss > keeps increasing up to 90% and more - the system is not accesible over > the internet anymore, packets get lost, SSH sessions or http requests > get stale, I have to restart the system. > > I experience no kernel panics. Another (maybe related) problem that > occurs (but does not effect system responsiveness) is described in: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-November/080525.html > > Here is some information about the system: > > dmesg (boot -v): > http://test.vx.sk/MS-7368/dmesg.txt > > pciconf -lcv: > http://test.vx.sk/MS-7368/pciconf.txt > > dmidecode: > http://test.vx.sk/MS-7368/dmidecode.txt > > I don't understand why this happens and would like to help debugging
Me either. I have a WIP version that fixes other issues on re(4) but I'm not sure whether it mitigates your issue. The overhauled re(4) supports larger descriptors(256 instead of 64) and TSO. http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_re.c http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_rlreg.h > this issue. > -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
