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Old 07-31-2001, 12:28 PM   #1
Jabbman
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Bus-Master....Dirty


Our machine has been working find under the current kernel for about a month and then suddenly out of nowhere these messages start appearing in the message log:

Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 96429(13) current 96431(15)
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: Transmit list 00000000 vs. cefd5540.
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 0: @cefd5200 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 1: @cefd5240 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 2: @cefd5280 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 3: @cefd52c0 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 4: @cefd5300 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 5: @cefd5340 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 6: @cefd5380 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 7: @cefd53c0 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 8: @cefd5400 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 9: @cefd5440 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 10: @cefd5480 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 11: @cefd54c0 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 12: @cefd5500 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 13: @cefd5540 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 14: @cefd5580 length 8000059a status 8001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 15: @cefd55c0 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 96484(4) current 96484(4)
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: Transmit list 00000000 vs. cefd5300.
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 0: @cefd5200 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 1: @cefd5240 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 2: @cefd5280 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 3: @cefd52c0 length 8000059a status 8001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 4: @cefd5300 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 5: @cefd5340 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 6: @cefd5380 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 7: @cefd53c0 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 8: @cefd5400 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 9: @cefd5440 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 10: @cefd5480 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 11: @cefd54c0 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 12: @cefd5500 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 13: @cefd5540 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 14: @cefd5580 length 8000059a status 0001059a
Jul 31 11:17:36 vortex kernel: 15: @cefd55c0 length 8000059a status 0001059a

There are lines and lines of this. Any idea what may have caused it and how to make it stop.
Thanks
 
Old 07-31-2001, 03:26 PM   #2
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Uhm... as per your other thread I'd start to look into some hardware diags. It might be a kernel issue, but I recon its more likely to be hardware.

cheers

Jamie...
 
Old 07-31-2001, 03:34 PM   #3
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Two Different Machines

My posts come from two different machines that aren't connected in anyway. This one is a stand alone server and the other is a raid cluster.
Thanks,
Wayne
 
Old 07-31-2001, 03:39 PM   #4
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Really! You had any power problems recently or have you got them spike filetered an UPS... As you said that the network performance was slow on the other machine, and I'm assuming that the above errors are from a 3C905 network card (aka Vortex) right? Seems odd to have a slow network on one machine, and a moaning network card on another. When you do an ifconfig do you see a lot of errors in your TX or RX count??

cheers

Jamie...
 
Old 07-31-2001, 03:42 PM   #5
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Another though - how tolerant is mosix of bad data being recieved over the network while its shifting processes around. Just wondering if this would be related to your other thread's problems, as I imagine that it would be a pretty good was to cause the kernel to oops.

cheers

Jamie...
 
Old 07-31-2001, 05:13 PM   #6
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The Card

Well it looks like the ethernet card went out. We replaced it and things seem to be chuging smooth now.
thanks,
Wayne P
 
  


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