Subject: Re: NFS problems on NetBSD 1.6
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.org>
From: Kirk Russell <kirk@ba23.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/03/2004 14:13:58
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Lord Isildur wrote:

> so, i brought up my 4k600 running 1.6.1, and mounted an nfs filesystem
> (from a pmax running 1.6.2) and wrote a couple lines of shell that
> hammered it all night long. nothing happened.. no transmit logic failed
> messages, no crashes..

I was able to reproduce the "xmit logic" messages on my 4k700a, running
1.6.2.  The i386 server has the UDP discard port open, via inetd.  I
ran this script from the VAX.  I didn't get an crashes -- the NIC driver
appeared to recover okay.

	# while true
	> do
	> ttcp -u -t -s -p9 -n 50000 -l 64 theserver > /dev/null
	> ttcp -u -t -s -p9 -n 50000 -l 64 theserver > /dev/null
	> ttcp -u -t -s -p9 -n 50000 -l 64 theserver > /dev/null
	> sleep 45
	> done
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ze0: xmit logic died, resetting...
	Oct 31 10:46:44 bronzevax /netbsd: ze0: xmit logic died, resetting...
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ze0: xmit logic died, resetting...
	Oct 31 10:47:54 bronzevax /netbsd: ze0: xmit logic died, resetting...
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ze0: xmit logic died, resetting...
	Oct 31 10:50:13 bronzevax /netbsd: ze0: xmit logic died, resetting...
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ze0: xmit logic died, resetting...
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ze0: xmit logic died, resetting...
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ze0: xmit logic died, resetting...
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ttcp-t: socket
	ze0: xmit logic died, resetting...

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Kirk Russell            <kirk@ba23.org>            http://www.ba23.org/
Bridlewood Software Testers Guild                  Ottawa Ontario Canada