On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:15:25PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > 
> > I have a system with a vr network card, connected to a 100baseTX-full-duplex
> > switch. With heavy network load (i.e. make && make install from a NFS client)
> > I see regular errors like:

I see the same problem on a PIII/300 running 1.5B.

vr0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0: VIA VT3043 (Rhine) 10/100 Ethernet
vr0: interrupting at irq 7
vr0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:aa:23:6f
dmphy0 at vr0 phy 8: DM9101 10/100 media interface, rev. 0
dmphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
 
> Don't you also see "transmit underruns"

No, only, aborts.

> > vr0: transmit aborted
> > 
> > Sometimes, after a few repetitions, the machine won't transmit network packets
> > any more.

I have not seen full stop of all transmission.

> Is this "any packet" or only NFS traffic ?
> I've seen this as well, but only NFS was wedged (I guess because it keep
> retransmitting the packet which triggers the bug); other traffic (ping,
> ssh, etc ...) are fine.

The machine is neither an NFS server nor client, so I guess the
problem is not restricted to NFS. I see about 10 transmit aborts per
hour, relatively evenly distributed. Loading the interface via 'ping
-s 1500 -f' does not appear to change to pattern.
 
> BTW, my machine was NFS client, not server. Maybe you run out of mbuf after
> some time ?
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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