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uberkermitt
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 Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject: ethernet problems causing *huge* log files [SOLVED] |
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I started having problems with my machine running in a clunky way, and then I was out of space, which seemed weird, as I had just cleaned some things up. Also, the way the fan was running, it sounded like I was compiling something. Anyway, I finally managed to track down the problem. Running top, I found that syslog-ng was using 60-70% of the CPU constantly, so when I went looking to see what it was doing, I found that my log file - /var/log/messages was like 7 gigs! Anyway, there were more than a few instances of that kind of log. And here is what it is saying over and over again:
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Mar 10 17:22:06 minty eth0: Adapter failed.
Mar 10 17:22:06 minty eth0: -- ERROR --
Mar 10 17:22:06 minty Class: Hardware failure
Mar 10 17:22:06 minty Nr: 0x264
Mar 10 17:22:06 minty Msg: unexpected IRQ Status error
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I managed to blow the messages text file up to 1.6 Mb in a minute or two. Anyway, after just checking it again now, it has not grown any more, and top indicates that syslog-ng is behaving itself. So it seems to be something intermittent.
I am hoping that this is not actually a hardware failure - I mean my net connection seems to be working just fine.
I am running an Asus A8V Deluxe board so that leaves me to use SK98LIN with the kernel IIRC - I do PPPoE o connect my dsl.
Hopefully someone can help me out. Let me know if you need any other info. Thanks
edit: My lspci:
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minty ~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
00:0d.0 Class 0210: D-Link System Inc Unknown device 1012 (rev 12)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1)
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benster
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I'm guessing that the driver doesn't understand the IRQ status returned. Maybe it's possible that some status codes aren't tested in the driver and as a result this is happening, because you have a gigabit adapter, which could be fairly new and less tested overall as far as the kernel is concerned. And since a /var/log/messages file of 7 gigs is pretty darn big, then I'm guessing that this is happening pretty often.
'tail -f' your /var/log/messages file and see if you can make it repeatable.
Apart from that, a google search reveals this gentoo wiki page:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_sk98lin
They say that sk98lin is deprecated and that a newer driver, sky2 should be in 2.6.15. Among many other interesting things. |
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uberkermitt
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>> And since a /var/log/messages file of 7 gigs is pretty darn big, then I'm guessing that this is happening pretty often.
Yes - many times a second - its crazy.
>>They say that sk98lin is deprecated and that a newer driver, sky2 should be in 2.6.15. Among many other interesting things.
Yep - I recompiled with a newer driver (skge I believe - sky2 did not seem to work for me) and I think the problem is fixed. I will keep an eye on things and let you all know if anything more happens.
Thanks for your help.
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