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Cc: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Troubles with em on FreeBSD 7
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Jack Vogel wrote:
> Oh, I just had a thought, increase the RX processing limit,
> that only allows you to process 100 packets in one pass.
> 
> First change it to 250 and see what it does, you might
> also set it to -1 which will allow you to process til you
> drain the ring, the risk is that you cause other problems
> by doing that, but heck at this point anything is worth
> trying, right?
> 

Tried that also, see my first post.

My loader.conf has:
hw.em.rxd="4096"

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