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From: "Vlad GALU" <dudu@dudu.ro>
To: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
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Cc: Jeff Blank <jb000003@mr-happy.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bce(4) and rx errors
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On 12/10/08, Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Mike, I'll give it a shot.

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