[ofa-general] RcvSwRelayErrors

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 12:30 +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> on one of our systems we get a rather huge numbers of RcvSwRelayErrors. All I 
> find about RcvSwRelayErrors is 
> 
> "This counter can increase due to a valid network event"
> 
> But what might cause?

Are you running IB multicast (e.g. IPoIB) ? That's the most common
cause.

-- Hal

> Thanks in advance for any help,
> Bernd
> 
> 
> [...]
>   11: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 189]
>    12: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 196]
>    16: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 34655]
> Errors for 0x000b8cffff002b33 "MT47396 Infiniscale-III Mellanox Technologies 
> ()"
>    1: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 190]
>    2: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 188]
>    3: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 195]
>    4: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 207]
>    5: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 194]
>    6: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 189]
>    8: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 198]
>    9: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 197]
>    10: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 190]
>    11: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 198]
>    12: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 190]
>    16: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 34711]
> Errors for 0x000b8cffff002b43 "MT47396 Infiniscale-III Mellanox Technologies 
> ()"
>    1: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 196]
>    3: [RcvSwRelayErrors == 242]
> [...]
>