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> Hmm.  Definately try the NIC swap then, couldn't hurt.  What's your `uname
> -a`?  This is something recent, right?

4.7-RELEASE

> > Thats one idea I was planning on doing, just to be sure its not a NIC
issue.
> > I am also going to try replacing the motherboard with one with a 64-bit
bus,
> > and isolate the gigabit ethernet on the 64-bit bus. That will also
change
> > the RAM and CPU just incase there could be a bad piece of hardware other
> > than a NIC.
>
> How busy is the gige int?  That's certianly capable of tying up a
> 32-bit bus...  Good ideas - nice to have so many options.  :)

The gige is a trunk on a 24 port switch. Its not all that busy, less than
fast ethernet speeds. (120Mb combined in/out aprox) I don't know if I
mentioned this, but I was seeing 90+% interupt usage in top before I enabled
"polling" in the kernel. It improved things, bot im still not able to get
even 200Mb out of this box.