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To: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Intel em (82574L and 82573L) problems: stopping on high network
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On 4/13/2015 6:16 AM, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> I don't want to say that I can easily reproduce it but chances are
> quite good when I transfer a lot of stuff over the network _AND_
> the CPU is heavily loaded. The CPU is a

try disabling tso
ifconfig em0 -tso
and see if it makes a difference.

	---Mike


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