I need a bit more context Nick. Is this a card that has been non-problematic on older releases and just showed a problem with 8.0 REL?
Regards, Jack On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Thomas Hurst <tom.hu...@clara.net> wrote: > * Jack Vogel (jfvo...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Its using MSI? Given that its PCI-X I have no idea how robust MSI is, > > how bout you compile it with that disabled, use legacy IRQ and see > > if that makes any diff. > > I'm seeing similar issues with a quad port 82546EB card, and they're not > using MSI as far as I can tell; IRC 28-31. MSI's are >127 or so I > think? > > > Using TSO on anything pre-PCI Express is a bad idea, probably why > > its gotten a bad rep in the em driver. > > Don't see TSO in ifconfig options, but will issue an ifconfig em3 -tso > to see if it makes any difference. > > Interestingly I can pull 30-60MB/s to/from em0 (LAN) without any > problems, but pulling 5MB/s from em3 has repeatedly led to the interface > just going silent until I bounce it. Quite intermitent though, > sometimes it dies in the first second or two, sometimes I can pull down > 20GB without a hitch. > > -- > Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst > http://hur.st/ > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
