em driver input errors

[Mike Tancsa]

At 11:28 AM 9/9/2009, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>At 11:17 AM 9/9/2009, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>The board is an intel
>>
>>http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/s3000ah/
>>
>>Not sure if its wired as PCI-X or just a 32bit bus.  I am just 
>>popping in an em pcie nic to see if that makes a difference.  I 
>>have an igb as well as bge I can try later.
>
>OK, now there is
>
>em0 at pci0:5:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xa01f8086 chip=0x10d38086 
>rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
>     cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
>     cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
>     cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
>     cap 11[a0] = MSI-X supports 5 messages in map 0x1c enabled
>
>


OK, much better.  Two nights in a row without errors, and Friday AM 
has a lot of level0 dumps.  Perhaps as you speculated, the onboard 
NICs were wired to a slower bus...  The pcie 1x hasnt shown any errors yet.

Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: Excessive collisions = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: Sequence errors = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: Defer count = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: Missed Packets = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: Receive No Buffers = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: Receive Length Errors = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: Receive errors = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: Crc errors = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: Alignment errors = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: Collision/Carrier extension errors = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: RX overruns = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: watchdog timeouts = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: RX MSIX IRQ = 50004846 TX MSIX 
IRQ = 40678847 LINK MSIX IRQ = 1
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: XON Rcvd = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: XON Xmtd = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: XOFF Rcvd = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: XOFF Xmtd = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: Good Packets Rcvd = 73064815
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: Good Packets Xmtd = 52479296
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: TSO Contexts Xmtd = 0
Sep 11 00:01:00 backup3 kernel: em0: TSO Contexts Failed = 0


Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
em0    1500 <Link#1>      00:1b:21:3f:62:72 193269942     0 
133269168     0     0
em0    1500 10.45.129.132 10.45.129.133            0     -        0     -     -
em1    1500 <Link#2>      00:15:17:57:31:8a        0     0        0     0     0
em1    1500 10.45.129.128 10.45.129.129            0     -        0     -     -
em2*   1500 <Link#3>      00:15:17:57:31:8b        0     0        0     0     0

         ---Mike

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