The failure to "setup receive structures" means it did not have
sufficient
mbufs
to setup the RX ring and buffer structs. Not sure why this results in a
lockup,
but try and increase kern.ipc.nmbclusters.
Let me know what happens,
Jack
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Willem Jan Withagen
<wjw@digiware.nl>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I build an ZFS server based on
> Supermicro C2SBX with 8Gb and intel Q9550
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Core2Duo/X38/C2SBX.cfm
> with an areca 1120 with 8*1,5T
>
> It has an Inter em0, as in:
> Feb 25 14:46:29 zfs kernel: pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
> Feb 25 14:46:29 zfs kernel: em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> 6.9.14> p
> ort 0x1820-0x183f mem 0xdf900000-0xdf91ffff,0xdf924000-0xdf924fff irq 16 at
> devi
> ce 25.0 on pci0
> Feb 25 14:46:29 zfs kernel: em0: Using MSI interrupt
> Feb 25 14:46:29 zfs kernel: em0: [FILTER]
> Feb 25 14:46:29 zfs kernel: em0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:de:97:cd
>
> I runs 8.0-STABLE as of today,
> but the same problem is there on a 9 februari kernel.
>
> And just out of the blue it started today locking up the network device.
>
> Everything else seems te work, only pinging out doesn't work.
> And the device cannot be pinged from the outside as well.
>
> But I can log in, do work on the system but the ethernet device stays
> offline no matter how hard I prod it.
> Sometimes I get the response:
> Feb 25 17:41:42 zfs kernel: em0: link state changed to DOWN
> Feb 25 17:41:42 zfs kernel: em0: Could not setup receive structures
> when I want to UP the device.
>
> Rebooting is the only way out.
>
> So what is going on here????
>
>
> ==============================> BUT there's another snag:
> shutdown -r now times out on one or the other daemon.
> After which the system no longer tries to reboot, does not respond to the
> keyboard.
> So in the end a hard reset is the only way out.
>
> All help welcomed.
> --WjW
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