From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 20:05:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7678016A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:05:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49D2543D4C for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:05:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.7.149] (host-149.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.149]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE17B80D for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:05:08 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) In-Reply-To: <20050419150335.46904.qmail@web60003.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050419150335.46904.qmail@web60003.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <4ca1c184ef042a708644d731f39d92e8@khera.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Vivek Khera Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:05:07 -0400 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: Re: designing new freebsd server for amd64 arch X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:05:09 -0000 On Apr 19, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Tom Shafron wrote: > I haven't experienced problems with the onboard bge > NICs on my Tyan 2882... but now you have me nervous... > do you have a link to people discussing the issues > that I can check out? > See the thread "Tyan k8sr lockups" on this very list from earlier this month. You have to be doing *very* heavy network + very heavy disk i/o at the same time to cause instability. once I replaced it with an intel NIC it has been 100% stable (going on 2 weeks now and ever increasing load)