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Cc: Massimo Lusetti <massimo@cedoc.mo.it>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: em interrupt storm
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On Wednesday 23 November 2005 03:55 am, Massimo Lusetti wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 03:31 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Maybe it'll be OK if you disable the onboard NIC and use a different
> > one.
>
> Sure, I'll try that, did you have any suggestion for the replacement
> nic?
>
> And do you think something could change if the arch is 64bit?
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/6024/SYS-6024H-82R.cfm

No, I've seen the same interrupt aliasing with a FreeBSD/amd64 kernel.  Giv=
en=20
that FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64 have nearly identical interrupt code th=
is=20
is to be expected.

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