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On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:01:19 -0500, Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com>  
wrote:

> You could try switching mpt to MSI.  MSI interrupts are never shared.   
> Add this to /boot/device.hints:
>
>> hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="1"


Currently implementing this on the known crashy servers. I've been looking  
around and all of our VM's that do NOT crash also do not share interrupts  
between em0/mpt0.

Thank you very much.... if this is the fix we will be SO grateful.