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Subject: Re: em network issues
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= I'd appreciate if people who are observing the problem will report
= whether adding DEVICE_POLLING option to kernel config helps them
= or not. This will help to tell whether the problem is in the above
= quote or in the import of new versions from vendor.

I tried this yesterday -- before writing to net@. I saw the "system" component 
of the total load being rather high and then enabled polling.

Again, I did not wait long enough to check, whether the system will cease 
communicating completely before enabling polling on em, but the "system" load 
was shooting way up upon starting my backup procedure even when I switched to 
DEVICE_POLLING-using kernel.

	-mi