Re: receive FIFO errors on vortex ethernet cards
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Heflin, Roger A. wrote: > Anyone know what receive FIFO errors mean? > > They don't seem to be causing major issues, but they do seem to be load > related. I get the errors both on vortex cards, and eepro cards, though they > seem to have higher rates on the vortex cards (the vortex machines are > faster machines). I am getting on the order of 3-4 fifo errors a second under > heavy network load. If you are getting them on both NIC types, you are apparently running out of PCI bandwidth, or are having a bus access problem. > Are there any kernel or network driver parameters I can change to > decrease these errors? This is usually caused by some other device on the PCI bus. We must know the system (chipset and motherboard) type, the other devices on the bus, and what the other drivers are doing before we can venture a guess. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex