Hi Everyone,
I've got a MAX6000 running ebixk.m60 Revision: 7.2.0, (yeah, I know thats
old, but it will be updated soon, and its been running fine) and just
recently its started to exhibit random high latency on the ethernet
Interface. It is connected to a 100Mbit switch, and for example pinging
from a server also connected at 100Mbit to the switch:
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=32 ttl=255 time=807
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=33 ttl=255 time=847
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=34 ttl=255 time=887
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=35 ttl=255 time=778
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=36 ttl=255 time=852
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=37 ttl=255 time=854
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=38 ttl=255 time=853
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=39 ttl=255 time=818
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=40 ttl=255 time=811
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=41 ttl=255 time=803
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=42 ttl=255 time=844
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=43 ttl=255 time=867
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=44 ttl=255 time=839
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=45 ttl=255 time=826
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=46 ttl=255
time=67.858 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=47 ttl=255
time=167.457 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=48 ttl=255
time=345.305 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=49 ttl=255
time=475.741 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=50 ttl=255
time=502.223 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=51 ttl=255
time=483.637 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=52 ttl=255
time=523.674 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=53 ttl=255
time=519.181 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=54 ttl=255
time=526.891 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=55 ttl=255
time=437.907 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=56 ttl=255
time=456.168 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=57 ttl=255
time=386.619 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=58 ttl=255
time=235.007 msec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=59 ttl=255 time=821
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=60 ttl=255 time=816
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=61 ttl=255 time=827
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=62 ttl=255 time=839
usec
64 bytes from abc.xyz.co.nz (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=63 ttl=255 time=822
usec
Most of the time it is below 1 ms as it should be, but then it will
suddenly start climbing sometimes as high as 700ms and then after 10-15
seconds it drops down to normal again.
I've replaced the Ethernet cable and also tried different ports on the
switch with no joy. I havn't ruled out a faulty switch, so I will be trying
another one soon.
Has anyone seen this ?
Also, perhaps by co-incidence, perhaps related, it crashed and rebooted
last night, the fatal-history for it was:
FATAL ERROR: Index: 17 Load: ebixk.m60 Revision: 7.2.0
Date: 04/18/2002. Time: 05:29:42
Location: b0249074 b0249914 b0249b20 b0249428 b018f7a0 00000000
It also crashed twice last year with an identical error, and Location. Does
anyone know how I should go about interpreting the error ?
Thanks.
Regards,
Simon