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>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> writes:

Scott> Interesting results.  One thing to note is that a severe bug in
Scott> the if_em driver was fixed for BETA7.  The symptoms of this bug
Scott> include apparent livelock of the machine during heavy xmit
Scott> load.  You might want to update and re-run your tests.

Sorry.  I should have made it clear that I applied the patches to the
em from the tree by hand.

Dave.

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