Re: em(4) receive part wedging randomly at moderate load

2005-09-28 Thread Chris Howells
On Monday 26 September 2005 15:29, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > during last month we are experiencing a nasty problem with em(4) > driver. Several times a day the receive path of the driver wedges > for a minute or two. During wedge the transmit part works with > no problems. The latter fact makes this

Re: em(4) receive part wedging randomly at moderate load

2005-09-26 Thread Dave+Seddon
Can we try running the windows drivers? Wasn't that called project evil. Dave Scott M. Ferris writes: On 9/26/05, Petri Helenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have the programming data for the chipsets so the driver could be taken further? I've been unable to obtain them from I

Re: em(4) receive part wedging randomly at moderate load

2005-09-26 Thread Scott M. Ferris
On 9/26/05, Petri Helenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have the programming data for the chipsets so the driver > could be taken further? I've been unable to obtain them from Intel > despite of repeated attempts. Intel released the 8254x Developer Manual in late July, so some inform

Re: em(4) receive part wedging randomly at moderate load

2005-09-26 Thread Benjamin Rosenblum
i believe one of the problems that im having is the size of the onboard memory. the new intel gig cards (82547 and higher) only have 40K onboard instead of the original 64K onboard. i have a few servers that i built with the older cards that do not seem to have the same problems. unfortunate

Re: em(4) receive part wedging randomly at moderate load

2005-09-26 Thread Petri Helenius
Benjamin Rosenblum wrote: the em driver in itself is extremly buggy. many people, myself included, are hitting some major problems with this driver that are causeing some serious issues. i cant transfer any large files to my server because the em driver panics and drops the connection for 15

Re: em(4) receive part wedging randomly at moderate load

2005-09-26 Thread Benjamin Rosenblum
the em driver in itself is extremly buggy. many people, myself included, are hitting some major problems with this driver that are causeing some serious issues. i cant transfer any large files to my server because the em driver panics and drops the connection for 15-20 seconds. its a real pa