Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 03:08:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Temporary freezes on a Compaq Message-ID: <199802271108.DAA27481@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Feb 1998 13:06:39 %2B0200." <199802271106.NAA10700@cdsec.com>
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> Apparently every so often (quite frequently) all activity on the machine > freezes for 3-4 seconds and then resumes. Or rather, all network activity; > no one is actually working on the console so I don't know whether this > applies to non-network activity as well. I asked him to check the load, > free memory, etc, to try to determine whether it is simply caused by > bus-mastering disk activity; however, it seems the load is not very high > and there is no obvious cause related to disk I/O. > > Has anyone experienced this? Is it perhaps related to the 3C509 driver? > Any suggestions would be appreciated. This sounds like a symptom of a known feature of the 3c509 with FreeBSD, where when an interrupt is lost, all network traffic stops until the timeout handler catches the situation. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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