Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:26:42PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:21:32AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>> And so looks mine, FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64,
>>>>> high I/O on disks and I/O on net renders this box unusuable ...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> thor# vmstat -i
>>>>> interrupt total rate
>>>>> irq1: atkbd0 12437 1
>>>>> irq6: fdc0 27 0
>>>>> irq12: psm0 335285 42
>>>>> irq14: ata0 215 0
>>>>> irq17: fwohci0 1 0
>>>>> irq20: atapci1 102616 12
>>>>> irq21: ohci0+ 2 0
>>>>> irq22: nve0 ehci0 7594338 956
>>>>> irq23: pcm0 41007 5
>>>>> cpu0: timer 31752206 3999
>>>>> Total 39838134 5018
>>>>>
>>>> You don't appear to be using the em driver. Can you confirm?
>>>>
>>>> Kris
>>>>
>>> positive.
>>>
>> It's probably a nve driver bug then, you should talk to the driver
>> author. This may not be fixable in FreeBSD since it's a binary
>> driver, so bug fixes mostly need to be done by the vendor.
>>
>
> The OP may want to try the nfe driver, which I've been using very
> happily on my amd64/nforce4 system for several months.
>
>
I did for a while (most recent driver I could get from the mentioned
japanese location) but the box got stuck after a while of network I/O.
On the other hand, at this moment I play around with FreeBSD 6.2-PRE and
do nearly every second day a build world, so it bothers me a bit doing
the recommended patches.
But your're wight. nfe() triggers a lot less interrupts than this binary
Linux crap nve - for the time it runs. I would appreciate a soon
occurence of the nfe driver in the STABLE or even in the 6.2-RELEASE code.
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