From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 28 20:04:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16F716A405 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:04:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [74.92.149.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A85C513C4A6 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:04:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.7.103] (host-103.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.103]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D777EB80A for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:04:25 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <200702281832.l1SIW2DF077797@lava.sentex.ca> References: <20070215043533.GA3293@icarus.home.lan> <000b01c750bd$5a2d55b0$d801a8c0@dimuthu> <20070228092000.GA51292@icarus.home.lan> <200702281832.l1SIW2DF077797@lava.sentex.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Vivek Khera Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:04:25 -0500 To: FreeBSD Stable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Subject: Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:04:26 -0000 On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Pretty well the same thing we are seeing. Our interrupt rate is a > bit higher as this is a fairly busy DNS server. I am guessing this > is more an issue with the bge driver then a general network issue > as other similarly loaded boxes with em nics are just fine for us. My experience is that the bge driver works better for some broadcom chips than others. I have one box on which it is totally worthless, contributing to file system lockups of all things (a Dell PE800), and others on which it is pretty stable and fast (e.g., Dell PE SC1425, PE SC430). On our PE800, I had to disable the bge on BIOS and plug in an em- based NIC card. Made a world of difference in system stability and performance -- it is actually usable now :-) All boxes run FreeBSD 6.1 except the PE800 which runs 6.2.