Re: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:01:43PM -0400, Wesley Morgan wrote:
> W> >Hi. I frequently get
> W> >
> W> >em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> W> >
> W> >messages, followed by loss of network at the most inopportune moments.
> W> >
> W> >It appears that it can be triggered by things like typing 'portinstall
> W> >mozilla' over an SSH connection. But that is just a hunch.
> W> >
> W> >Any ideas how to debug this further?
> W> >
> W> >Hardware is a dell optiplex GX270. Kernel is -CURRENT from 29 june.
> W>
> W> I have the same issue on my laptop. It seems like the problem came into
> W> being a few months ago, but I've never gone any further than trying to
> W> revert to a previous version of the driver, which did not help.
>
> In rev. 1.107 of if_em.c there was a fix that made this message
> printed. Before 1.107 the reset was issued, but driver was silent about
> this.
>
> W> For me, the problem is more than just loss of network, but rather every
> W> application hanging while multiple timeouts occurr.
>
> Hmm. May be you are using serial console and system lags when the
> console messages are printed?

No. I didn't have this laptop until after the 1.107 commit, either. It was 
probably always doing the timeout, I just never used it much until more 
recently.



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