3c59x: recurring transmit errors (solved?)

[root@george.ikansas.com]

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...

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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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