3c59x: recurring transmit errors (solved?)

[Greg Whalin]

I can confirm this.  Most of my systems being affected by this are all
high memory (128MB and above) systems.  They only experience this during
high traffic.  

Greg

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Greg Whalin
gwhalin@numerix.com

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 root@george.ikansas.com wrote:

> memory doesn't seem to be an issue for me.  I've got one webserver with
> 256 meg of ram that still has the ethernet timeout messages... it seems
> that high traffic causes the timeout on that machine.   I also have a
> nameserver that also tends to lock up in the same fashion.  It only has
> 64M of ram, but then again, all it's doing it providing name service...
> once again the symptoms seem to be traffic related...
> 
> skip
> 
> On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Yeak Nai Siew wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone solved the problem with transmit errors for 3c59x driver?
> > 
> > My situation here is that when the memory is tight, the transmit erorr will
> > happen. My PC has 64Mb, but I run quite a lot of thing in it, especially
> > web server which started about 25 instance of server! I believe that ate a
> > lot of ram. Besides that, I ran INND, Https, Sendmail, MySQL server.... and
> > every monday I will run Analog to do log analysis. All in one machine. 64Mb
> > seems not enough and I saw "out of memory" message appear on the console!
> > 
> > I hope someone can confirm that low memory can cause transmit erorrs.
> > 
> > I have just upgraded the RAM to 128Mb. I hope to see smooth running for
> > months without interruption.
> > 
> > My ethernet card is initialized as following,
> > 
> > Sep  7 19:51:18 lisa kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
> > http://cesdis.
> > gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
> > Sep  7 19:51:18 lisa kernel:   The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device!
> > Updati
> > ng PCI command 0103->0107.
> > Sep  7 19:51:18 lisa kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps at 0xdce0,
> > 00:c0:4f:
> > c2:b7:e6, IRQ 11
> > Sep  7 19:51:18 lisa kernel:   32K byte-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split, 10baseT
> > interf
> > ace.
> > Sep  7 19:51:18 lisa kernel: eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT)
> > setting o
> > f 32, new value is 248.
> > 
> > 
> > The transmit erorr appears like this,
> > 
> > Sep  7 18:20:36 lisa kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status
> > e000.
> > Sep  7 18:21:07 lisa last message repeated 39 times
> > Sep  7 18:22:08 lisa last message repeated 46 times
> > Sep  7 18:23:10 lisa last message repeated 30 times
> > Sep  7 18:24:16 lisa last message repeated 10 times
> > Sep  7 18:24:48 lisa last message repeated 8 times
> > 
> > 
> > 
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