Re: RX overrun with 3COM 3c982
Claude Pignol <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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| Organization | SeismicCity, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Donald Becker wrote: > > >>>What does /proc/net/dev report? >>> >>> >>>face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame... >>> eth0:79819430 5177203 0 0 2040 0 >>> >>> > >OK, this is the useful output. > >The only source for FIFO errors with this speicific chip is the errors >reported in Window 6 offset 5. >These errors can occur either because > The chip ran out of PCI bandwidth > The driver ran out of receive buffers, causing the PCI Rx transfers > (the "upload engine") to stall. > >Are you running another high-bandwidth PCI device on the system? Video >cards are the usual offenders. > > There is no added video card excpeted the controller on the MB which is unused 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] System Controller (rev 11) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] AGP Bridge 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ISA (rev 05) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE (rev 04) 00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ACPI (rev 03) 00:08.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 3ware ATA-RAID (rev 12) 00:10.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] PCI (rev 05) 02:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] USB (rev 07) 02:07.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c980-TX 10/100baseTX NIC [Python-T] (rev 78) 02:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c980-TX 10/100baseTX NIC [Python-T] (rev 78) >Have you tried increasing the kernels free memory? > >2.2 kernels > echo 500 1000 2000 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages >and 2.4 kernels > echo "100 500 200" > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush > > Current values for bdflush and bdflush cat /proc/sys/vm/bdflush 40 0 0 0 500 3000 60 0 cat /proc/sys/vm/freepages 2589 10237 14332 Kernel 2.4.18-4 + pactch xfs1.1 2GB memory HIGHMEM is on and should be turn off (because only 2GB of mem) I havn't try to modify the memory parameter. CP -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Claude Pignol SeismicCity, Inc. <http://www.seismiccity.com> 2900 Wilcrest Dr. Suite 370 Houston TX 77042 Phone:832 251 1471 Mob:281 703 2933 Fax:832 251 0586 _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex