3c905C hangings

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Casey Anderson wrote:

> ... before the computer hung
[[ Actually before the interface hung ]]

> Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
>  face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes
> packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
>   eth0:1579307866 91344950    0    0    1     0          0         0
> 2440096167 109854604    0    0    0 1559583       0          0
...
> Once my server hung...
>   eth0:1616550700 91926269    0    0 18756     0          0         0
> 2540153172 110567926    0    0    0 1566832       0          0


> Does this help?  I'm using 2.2.12 kernel, with one machine SMP and the other
> non-SMP.  Both are dual PIII-600 computers with 384MB ram.  They are game
> servers so consequently there are very network intensive.  I'm using the
> 0.99H driver.  Also, I have a lot of "eth0: Transmit error, Tx status
> register 82." messages.

These are BAD!  Very Bad!

You have out-of-window collisions.  You likely have one machine forced full
duplex.  This situation will cause very bad performance for the entire
network.  That should be your first priority to fix.

> I'm looking for a solution to the hanging. :)  I'm willing to take any
> suggestions or questions on how to debug this more, suggestions how possible

When the card hangs the next time run the 'vortex-diag' program.

Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, becker@scyld.com

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