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Subject: Re: Watchdog timeout em driver 8.2-R
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* Lars Wilke wrote:
>  * Jack Vogel wrote:
> >  ok then i guess i will upgrade to 8.3-R, is the driver there reasonably
> >  new?
> >
> > Yes, that should be fine.

Ok, with 8.3R everything seems to be stable, at least i could not
reproduce the NIC resetting itself in last 4 houers now :)

But i noticed that, i.e. dev.em.3.tx_dma_fail: 41316
is increasing rather quickly and my NFS write performance dropped
rather badly.

What does the tx_dma_fail mean?

   --lars