Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Chan
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:43:19 +1000 CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I take minute by minute snapshots of network traffic by sampling > /proc/net/dev and most of the time everything works fine. Occasionally > though I get petabyte byte traffic and corresponding packet traffic. We were able to re

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-17 Thread Roland Dreier
I actually have a couple of Dell 1950 systems with bnx2 NICs too, which I use for kernel development (ie one more crash is fine :) If someone can give me an idea for what kind of load to use, I can try this patch out to see if it triggers. - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-17 Thread Jean-Daniel Pauget
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:43:48AM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 12:10:51PM -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 17:20 -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > > > > Here's the debug patch for x86 only that will change the statistics > > memory block to read-only. If the kernel

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-16 Thread CaT
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 12:10:51PM -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 17:20 -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > > > I also like Andi's idea of using change_page_attr() to isolate the > > problem. I'll try to send you a debug patch in the next few days to try > > that out. Thanks. > > H

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Chan
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 17:20 -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > I also like Andi's idea of using change_page_attr() to isolate the > problem. I'll try to send you a debug patch in the next few days to try > that out. Thanks. > Here's the debug patch for x86 only that will change the statistics memory

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-14 Thread Michael Chan
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 17:41 +1000, CaT wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:13:00AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:43:19 +1000 CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I take minute by minute snapshots of network traffic by sampling > > > /proc/net/dev and most of the time ev

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-12 Thread Andi Kleen
Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Adding Michael Chan, who seems to look after bnx2, to the cc list] > > > To clarify it's an Intel Dual Core Xeon (I just wound up as thinking of > > them all as amd64s). Network card driver in use is the one defined by > > CONFIG_BNX2. Kernel's mono

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-12 Thread Roland Dreier
[Adding Michael Chan, who seems to look after bnx2, to the cc list] > To clarify it's an Intel Dual Core Xeon (I just wound up as thinking of > them all as amd64s). Network card driver in use is the one defined by > CONFIG_BNX2. Kernel's monolithic. >From a quick look at bnx2.c, it seems that

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-12 Thread CaT
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:18:24PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > > > Apr 11 22:14:02 ' eth0:220898233988841368 66750274000 0 > > > 0 86458738 52386430545 101089219 19931300 0 199313 > > > 0 ' > > > > Apr 11 22:15:02 ' eth0:17227454818 81381144

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-12 Thread Roland Dreier
> > Apr 11 22:14:02 ' eth0:220898233988841368 66750274000 0 > >0 86458738 52386430545 101089219 19931300 0 199313 > > 0 ' > > Apr 11 22:15:02 ' eth0:17227454818 81381144000 0 > > 0 0 33091307388 86658381

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-12 Thread Roland Dreier
> Apr 9 06:19:04 ' eth0:14250798570591813804 2284720007938 1863800 > 18638 0 27375938 1556640980159 3345714490000 0 > 0 0 ' One odd thing is that crazy number 14250798570591813804 is c5c501cbc5c500ac in hex. I dunno what the significant of t

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:52:49 +1000 CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:13:00AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:43:19 +1000 CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I take minute by minute snapshots of network traffic by sampling > > > /proc/net/dev an

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-12 Thread CaT
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:13:00AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:43:19 +1000 CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I take minute by minute snapshots of network traffic by sampling > > /proc/net/dev and most of the time everything works fine. Occasionally > > though I get petab

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-02 Thread Jean-Daniel Pauget
I don't know if a me-too may help you, but I have exactly the same trouble on a whole set of dell servers, all with bmx drivers (suse 10.1 kernel) and values fetched by an homebrew daemon and collected via rrd. > uname -a Linux toronto 2.6.16.27-0.6-smp #1 SMP Wed Dec 13 09:34:50 UTC

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-02 Thread CaT
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:13:00AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:43:19 +1000 CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I take minute by minute snapshots of network traffic by sampling > > /proc/net/dev and most of the time everything works fine. Occasionally > > though I get petab

Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:43:19 +1000 CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I take minute by minute snapshots of network traffic by sampling > /proc/net/dev and most of the time everything works fine. Occasionally > though I get petabyte byte traffic and corresponding packet traffic. How frequently? Are

intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic

2007-04-01 Thread CaT
I take minute by minute snapshots of network traffic by sampling /proc/net/dev and most of the time everything works fine. Occasionally though I get petabyte byte traffic and corresponding packet traffic. This happens on an AMD64, dual core smp box with Broadcom NetXtreme II nics. The issue happen