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Date:      Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:21:36 +0100
From:      Markus Gebert <markus.gebert@hostpoint.ch>
To:        Christopher Forgeron <csforgeron@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: 9.2 ixgbe tx queue hang
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On 21.03.2014, at 14:16, Christopher Forgeron <csforgeron@gmail.com> =
wrote:

> Hi Markus,
>=20
>  Yes, we may have different problems, or perhaps the same problem is =
manifesting itself in different ways in our systems.=20
>=20
>  Have you tried a 10.0-RELEASE system yet? If we were on the same OS =
version, we could then compare system specs a bit deeper, and see what =
is different. Perhaps under 10.0 your symptoms would be closer to mine, =
which may not be progress, but would be something.=20

I=92m afraid, we can=92t. We can only reproduce this on production =
systems. And they cannot be easily upgraded right now. For one, we don=92t=
 have our build infrastructure ready for 10.x, because we usually skip =
the X.0 release, which means no poudriere/pkg repo with locally patched =
packages I need for these systems go into production. Then there=92s =
testing, configuration changes needed, etc. It will probably be a year =
until we can consider upgrading anything productive to FreeBSD 10.x.

I could setup a test system on identical spare hardware, but as we =
cannot trigger the problem without production load so far, there=92s no =
point.


Markus




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