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From: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>
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Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@uni-mainz.de>,
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Subject: Re: em, bge, network problems survey.
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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