From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 27 13:27:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F2CD16A407 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:27:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu (mxout5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 281D543D55 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:27:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout5.cac.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.03/8.13.5+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k3RDRNmd025478 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:27:23 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.50] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.03/8.13.6+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k3RDRMBR000839 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:27:23 -0700 Message-ID: <4450C6B9.1070707@u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:27:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060402) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <00ed01c669fb$87e94f80$6d00a8c0@alison> In-Reply-To: <00ed01c669fb$87e94f80$6d00a8c0@alison> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __STOCK_CRUFT 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: during boot aue0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:27:29 -0000 Tony Angelo wrote: > Hello, All > > What does this string (i get it during boot) : > > aue0: if_start running deferred for Giant > > Who is Giant ? :-) > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I believe "Giant" is a reference to the a portion of the internal task scheduler's universal lock in FreeBSD's kernel and can be enabled/disabled by using the ADAPTIVE_GIANT directive in the kernel config file. It may also be a fault in the way that either the driver for your network card is written or lack of support which is causing that issue to come up, as well. Here's a document on the supposed "Giant Lock", by the world famous (or at least FreeBSD famous ;).) Greg Lehey: , and if you google "Giant deferred", you'll find a few documents that I'm referring to in the *BSD world. -Garrett