Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:30:06 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@uni-mainz.de>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em, bge, network problems survey. Message-ID: <20061008043006.GA67655@duncan.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <20061006172642.GA15047@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <45244053.6030706@samsco.org> <20061005200552.GA80162@xor.obsecurity.org> <4525766D.5060004@mail.uni-mainz.de> <20061005214505.GA81829@xor.obsecurity.org> <4526201C.7060304@uni-mainz.de> <20061006172642.GA15047@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:26:42PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:21:32AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > >>And so looks mine, FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64, > > >>high I/O on disks and I/O on net renders this box unusuable ... > > >> > > >> > > >>thor# vmstat -i > > >>interrupt total rate > > >>irq1: atkbd0 12437 1 > > >>irq6: fdc0 27 0 > > >>irq12: psm0 335285 42 > > >>irq14: ata0 215 0 > > >>irq17: fwohci0 1 0 > > >>irq20: atapci1 102616 12 > > >>irq21: ohci0+ 2 0 > > >>irq22: nve0 ehci0 7594338 956 > > >>irq23: pcm0 41007 5 > > >>cpu0: timer 31752206 3999 > > >>Total 39838134 5018 > > > > > >You don't appear to be using the em driver. Can you confirm? > > > > > >Kris > > > > positive. > > It's probably a nve driver bug then, you should talk to the driver > author. This may not be fixable in FreeBSD since it's a binary > driver, so bug fixes mostly need to be done by the vendor. The OP may want to try the nfe driver, which I've been using very happily on my amd64/nforce4 system for several months. -- Andrew
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