Intel em0: watchdog timeout

[Jack Vogel]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Kirk Davis <kirk.davis at epsb.ca> wrote:

>
>        From: Jack Vogel [mailto:jfvogel at gmail.com]
>
>         Try `sysctl dev.em.0.stats=1` and em.2, you're right though,
> doesn't look like any
>        system mbuf failures.
>
>
> Does this need to be done in loader.conf?  It doesn't seem to take from
> the command line.
> # sysctl dev.em.2.stats=1
> dev.em.2.stats: -1 -> -1
>
> # sysctl dev.em.2.stats
> dev.em.2.stats: -1
>
>
>
you will only see the data on the system console, if you're in a graphics
environment use `tail /var/log/messages' and you will see it :)


>        7.2 seems to be a stable base OS and driver, 8 is better in some
> respects, but
>        has not been without its reported problems. I leave the choice
> to you.
>
>        Without more data I am not sure what is causing the watchdog.
>
> Yes, I am having trouble tracking it down.  I up'ed the mbufs to 65536
> just to see if it made any difference but it is still happening.
>

I have the testers here set:

nmbclusters 262144


Jack