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Subject: Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on
	TyanThunder K8S pro S2882 twin Operteron
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> On Mar 4, 2005, at 7:56 AM, Alan Jay wrote:
> 
> > We switched off the broadcom Ethernet controller (via software) and
> > routed all
> > traffic via the boards Intel 10/000 Ethernet connection.  One of the
> > problem
> > databases has now been running for a few days and so far has been ok.
> >
> 
> FWIW, I have a dual opteron tyan 2881 board with 4GB and the same NIC
> chip (as identified by FreeBSD 5-STABLE).  No problems under pretty
> decent load.  Perhaps it has to do also with > 4Gb RAM.   Could you
> test that theory too?

[Alan Jay] Yes this is the one thing left on the test options that I can think
of is to switch off some the memory and try again.  Since I posted the above
we have done some more tests and there still seems to be a problem but we are
now heading toward the view that is more memory related.