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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:07:26 -0500
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>, re@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new em-driver still broken
Message-ID:  <200610311307.27063.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <200610302323.50659@aldan>
References:  <200610282112.k9SLC0cC024602@corbulon.video-collage.com> <4544E0C1.6050705@samsco.org> <200610302323.50659@aldan>

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понед╕лок 30 жовтень 2006 23:23, Mikhail Teterin написав:
> Ok. I rebooted and restarted the heavy traffic dump (DEVICE_POLLING in
> kernel, but without polling actialy enabled). The dump got underway,
> although the amount of "sys" load was rather high -- way above 70%
> most of the time (on a dual-CPU machine).
>
> Then I tried to enable polling. The following command worked fine:
>
> (ifconfig em0 down; sleep 1; ifconfig em0 polling; sleep 1; ifconfig em0
> up) &
>
> Traffic resumed a couple of second later...
>
> A minute later, ALL TRAFFIC stopped. The machine is, again, unreachable
> via network...
>
> Conclusion: The only way to have a working em-interface is to compile
> with DEVICE_POLLING, but without polling enabled... It is slow (very CPU
> intensive), but it seems to work...

FWIW, enabling polling at boot (via rc.conf) does not change anything 
either...

	-mi



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