Subject: Re: fxp0: Device timeouts on AlphaServers
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Stephen M. Jones <smj@cirr.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/16/2003 16:46:58
I'm also seeing this with CS20s (1.6.1rc1). Two CS20s here have the same
hardware configuration, but different loads/usage .. the funny thing is the
one that has more I/O usage is not the one that is complaining so often.
They're both NFS mounting the same disks, one runs a a webmail http server
the other runs a mud .. both handle anywhere from 30-100 users at anytime.
Machine with 396 timeouts in 1+ days:
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Colls
fxp0 1500 <Link> 00:02:56:00:03:f1 6370825 0 4499825 2 0
fxp0 1500 10 10.0.0.4 6370825 0 4499825 2 0
fxp0 1500 fe80::/64 fe80::202:56ff:fe 6370825 0 4499825 2 0
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Colls
fxp1 1500 <Link> 00:02:56:00:03:f2 8695523 0 11280206 970 0
fxp1 1500 216.162.208 216.162.208.195 8695523 0 11280206 970 0
fxp1 1500 fe80::/64 fe80::202:56ff:fe 8695523 0 11280206 970 0
Machine with 107 timeouts in 6+ days:
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Colls
fxp0 1500 <Link> 00:02:56:00:0f:41 55517683 0 35751524 60 0
fxp0 1500 10/24 10.0.0.5 55517683 0 35751524 60 0
fxp0 1500 fe80::/64 fe80::202:56ff:fe 55517683 0 35751524 60 0
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Colls
fxp1 1500 <Link> 00:02:56:00:0f:42 25359266 0 24861122 309 0
fxp1 1500 216.162.208 216.162.208.196 25359266 0 24861122 309 0
fxp1 1500 fe80::/64 fe80::202:56ff:fe 25359266 0 24861122 309 0
I think the DS10Ls and similar would be a victim of this race condition.
If there is a patch or work around, I would be interested as well.
The unfortunate part of this story is that I'm planning on replacing our
AS1200 (four) with DS10L which have built in fxp devices. But hopefully we'll
get a work around together before to long.
Other than occassional lag from timeouts, 1.6.1rc1 does seem very stable!