Re: 82573 xfers pause, no watchdog timeouts, DCGDIS ineffective (7.2-R)

2009-11-12 Thread Jack Vogel
LOL, glad the problem has been resolved, and no thanks, I do not need to pursue this any further. I also want to thank Jeremy for his help and data!! Thanks guys and good evening, Jack On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Royce Williams wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Royce Williams >

Re: 82573 xfers pause, no watchdog timeouts, DCGDIS ineffective (7.2-R)

2009-11-12 Thread Royce Williams
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Royce Williams wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Jeremy Chadwick >> - All machines connected to an HP ProCurve 2626 switch (100mbit, >>  full-duplex ports, all autoneg). > No firewall is active on the problem system, and none of this back > have been DCGD

Re: 82573 xfers pause, no watchdog timeouts, DCGDIS ineffective (7.2-R)

2009-11-12 Thread Royce Williams
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Please define "low-throughput" and "high-volume" if you could; it might > help folks determine where the threshold is for problems. My definitions are pretty subjective/operational, but for what it's worth: - "low" is interactive SSH, DN

Re: 82573 xfers pause, no watchdog timeouts, DCGDIS ineffective (7.2-R)

2009-11-12 Thread Jack Vogel
It is critically important on these systems that you get the latest BIOS on them, so maybe that's the difference between you two. I am going to be putting out a new em driver to CURRENT soon, it might be an option to try that as well, it sounds like a hang, management/os race in the driver is a po

Re: 82573 xfers pause, no watchdog timeouts, DCGDIS ineffective (7.2-R)

2009-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:36:16AM -0900, Royce Williams wrote: > We have servers with dual 82573 NICs that work well during low-throughput > activity, but during high-volume activity, they pause shortly after transfers > start and do not recover. Other sessions to the system are not affected.

82573 xfers pause, no watchdog timeouts, DCGDIS ineffective (7.2-R)

2009-11-12 Thread Royce Williams
We have servers with dual 82573 NICs that work well during low-throughput activity, but during high-volume activity, they pause shortly after transfers start and do not recover. Other sessions to the system are not affected. These systems are being repurposed, jumping from 6.3 to 7.2. The same