[ATA] and re(4) stability issues

[Victor Balada Diaz]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:07:19PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:32:25PM +0100, Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
>  > Also i didn't see any problem with interfaces going up and down,
>  > but that usually happen after some hours of uptime, so i'll let
>  > you know if the error happens again.
>  > 

After writing to the HD with dd for a few hours and using
stress -i 10 -d 10 the machine lost connectivity. I waited until
today to be sure if the machine hung, paniced or just lost network
connectivity. I don't have local access or serial access, so this
is the only way i could do it. I've seen in the logs during the
night various messages of:


Dec 10 00:33:49 yac kernel: re0: watchdog timeout
Dec 10 00:33:49 yac kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN
Dec 10 00:33:52 yac kernel: re0: link state changed to UP

The interface never recovered and i wasn't able to ping the machine
until i rebooted. Nagios was checking all the time and no recovery
happened.

The netstat -i in daily scripts shows just one Oerrs. I'm used to
have a lot of them, but seems this time the card didn't recover from
the only one. I also want to say that this is not a regression, as
it happened before with 7.1 -BETA 2 code.

Is there anything more i can try?

Regards.
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