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Date:      Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:01:35 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        "Jeff Blank" <jb000003@mr-happy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bce(4) and rx errors
Message-ID:  <da7c82b98cb2c738d4f0e1261f83044e.squirrel@wettoast.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081210160325.GA72838@mr-happy.com>
References:  <ad79ad6b0812100659i33db659ewc022b0100f8b097f@mail.gmail.com> <20081210160325.GA72838@mr-happy.com>

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On Wed, December 10, 2008 11:03 am, Jeff Blank wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 04:59:26PM +0200, Vlad GALU wrote:
>> I have an application pulling about 220Kpps from a bce(4) card
>> (details below). At what seems to be random times, errors start
>> showing up on that interface (I'm watching it with netstat -w1 -I), so
>> about 10% of the initial 220Kpps is reported as errors.
>
> I'm also seeing a pretty steady stream of errors on both bce
> interfaces in a Dell PowerEdge 2950 III.  In my case, the source
> is RELENG_7_1 from ~14:00 UTC yesterday (9 Dec).  Throughput does not
> seem to be affected.  "sysctl -a | egrep -i 'bce.*err'" yields all
> zeroes, for whatever that's worth.

See the "RELENG_7_1: bce driver change generating too much interrupts ?"
thread. This problem as surfaced since the recent bce driver changes.




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