[CentOS] tg3 ethernet card drops connection under heavy load
Tru Huynh
tru at centos.org
Thu Oct 9 14:15:40 UTC 2008
Hi,
please leave the attribution when you reply ;)
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 08:27:34AM -0500, Sean Carolan wrote:
>
> This server is running centos 3.9
> Linux server.domain.com 2.4.21-57.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 7 06:10:55 EDT
> 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
3.9 32 bits SMP latest kernel version.
> There was nothing out of the ordinary in /var/log/messages. The
> logging just stops after the network card drops offline. dmesg also
> shows nothing out of the ordinary when the driver is loaded. The
> network card works fine until it is under heavy load.
>
> > -> /sbin/ifconfig -a
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
> inet addr:10.100.1.200 Bcast:10.100.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:56261 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:30199 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:5969478 (5.6 Mb) TX bytes:3305868 (3.1 Mb)
> Interrupt:26
not much my compute node running the 64 bits version are showing:
... 2.4.21-57.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 7 05:32:23 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
/etc/modules.conf:
...
alias eth1 tg3
...
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:157.99.90.xxx Bcast:157.99.90.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1016657124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:831373335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:211598527896 (201796.0 Mb) TX bytes:217466051363 (207391.7 Mb)
Interrupt:24
[tru at aaricia ~]$ uptime
16:12:45 up 126 days, 19:17, 1 user, load average: 4.07, 3.88, 3.12
[tru at aaricia ~]$ lspci
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
02:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
> <snip ethtool results: look fine >
check for a loose network cable?
Tru
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