Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:04:25 -0500 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2 Message-ID: <E7980669-771B-4DA7-9F90-3F2762C1BF59@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <200702281832.l1SIW2DF077797@lava.sentex.ca> References: <20070215043533.GA3293@icarus.home.lan> <000b01c750bd$5a2d55b0$d801a8c0@dimuthu> <20070228092000.GA51292@icarus.home.lan> <200702281832.l1SIW2DF077797@lava.sentex.ca>
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On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Pretty well the same thing we are seeing. Our interrupt rate is a > bit higher as this is a fairly busy DNS server. I am guessing this > is more an issue with the bge driver then a general network issue > as other similarly loaded boxes with em nics are just fine for us. My experience is that the bge driver works better for some broadcom chips than others. I have one box on which it is totally worthless, contributing to file system lockups of all things (a Dell PE800), and others on which it is pretty stable and fast (e.g., Dell PE SC1425, PE SC430). On our PE800, I had to disable the bge on BIOS and plug in an em- based NIC card. Made a world of difference in system stability and performance -- it is actually usable now :-) All boxes run FreeBSD 6.1 except the PE800 which runs 6.2.
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