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Subject: Re: 9.2 ixgbe tx queue hang
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Markus,

 I just wanted to clarify what dtrace will output in a 'no-error'
situation. I'm seeing the following during a normal ping (no errors) on
ix0, or even on a non-problematic bge NIC:





On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Markus Gebert
<markus.gebert@hostpoint.ch>wrote:

> Also, if you have dtrace available:
>
> kldload dtraceall
> dtrace -n 'fbt:::return / arg1 == EFBIG && execname == "ping" / { stack();
> }'
>
> while you run pings over the interface affected. This will give you hints
> about where the EFBIG error comes from.
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