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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:27:20 +0300
From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To: Massimo Lusetti <massimo@cedoc.mo.it>
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Subject: Re: Heavy loaded network machine
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:22:41AM +0100, Massimo Lusetti wrote:
M> Due to the latest thread on em interrupt storm i would like to know
M> which is the recommended nic to choose to be deployed on a -STABLE
M> 
M> Read "recommended" as: which works good without known wired behavior and
M> has produced good performance over a gigabit wire

The em(4) driver in STABLE is now in quite good state. We use it on
heavy loaded routers. The interrupt storm in the thread you mention
was probably caused by some bad hardware combination between mainboard
and NIC.

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