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Date:      Thu, 5 May 2011 13:22:15 -0700
From:      Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To:        Daan Vreeken <Daan@vehosting.nl>
Cc:        Current@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
Subject:   Re: Interrupt storm with MSI in combination with em1
Message-ID:  <BANLkTi=AMzUbjfJmvtdGaBM69YzZ2tq=0g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201105052217.51893.Daan@vehosting.nl>
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Cool, thanks for the update! Good luck.

Jack


On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Daan Vreeken <Daan@vehosting.nl> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> On Thursday 05 May 2011 21:28:02 Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > On 2011-May-05 13:22:59 +0200, Daan Vreeken <Daan@vehosting.nl> wrote:
> > >Not yet. I'll reboot the machine later today when I have physical access
> > > to it to check the BIOS version. I'll keep you informed as soon as I
> get
> > > another storm going.
> >
> > Depending on the quality of your BIOS (competence of the vendor), you
> > might find that kenv(8) reports the BIOS version without needing a
> reboot.
> > (Look at smbios.bios.* in the output).
>
> Great! I didn't know that :)
>
> # kenv
> ...
> smbios.bios.reldate="07/15/2010"
> ...
> smbios.bios.version="0303   "
> ...
> smbios.planar.maker="ASUSTeK Computer INC."
> smbios.planar.product="P7H55-M LX"
>
>
> Version "0402" is the latest and greatest, so it's time to upgrade.
> According
> to Asus it "Improves system stability", so let's see if this 'cures' IRQ
> 16.
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Daan Vreeken
> VEHosting
> http://VEHosting.nl
> tel: +31-(0)40-7113050 / +31-(0)6-46210825
> KvK nr: 17174380
>



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