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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: em, bge, network problems survey.
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:21:32AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:

> >>And so looks mine, FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64,
> >>high I/O on disks and I/O on net renders this box unusuable ...
> >>
> >>
> >>thor# vmstat -i
> >>interrupt                          total       rate
> >>irq1: atkbd0                       12437          1
> >>irq6: fdc0                            27          0
> >>irq12: psm0                       335285         42
> >>irq14: ata0                          215          0
> >>irq17: fwohci0                         1          0
> >>irq20: atapci1                    102616         12
> >>irq21: ohci0+                          2          0
> >>irq22: nve0 ehci0                7594338        956
> >>irq23: pcm0                        41007          5
> >>cpu0: timer                     31752206       3999
> >>Total                           39838134       5018
> >
> >You don't appear to be using the em driver.  Can you confirm?
> >
> >Kris
>=20
> positive.

It's probably a nve driver bug then, you should talk to the driver
author.  This may not be fixable in FreeBSD since it's a binary
driver, so bug fixes mostly need to be done by the vendor.

kris

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