Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:02:33 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Christer Solskogen <solskogen@carebears.mine.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: High load - lost network Message-ID: <20081111080233.GA91743@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <gfbe2i$hb$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <gf9ado$n70$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081110145952.GA72821@icarus.home.lan> <gf9otb$poo$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081111003234.GA83329@icarus.home.lan> <gfbbaj$pv9$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081111074043.GA91207@icarus.home.lan> <gfbe2i$hb$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:00:18AM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > I'm not really sure anyone will know how to fix this. Sometimes a BIOS > > upgrade can fix such things, other times motherboard replacements are in > > order. > > > > I'll check the BIOS and see if I could do something with it. > If I enable POLLING, could that fix the problem? Simply put: I don't know. Based on the polling(4) man page, it might improve things for you, but your ATA high interrupt rate problem will still exist even if you use polling(4). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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