This is the output when the machine is running at 80 Mbit/s and CPU usage is almost 100% interrupts:
Please note that this is after we rebooted with the SP kernel, which didn't make any differences. systat ifs: IFACE STATE DESC IPKTS IBYTES IERRS OPKTS OBYTES OERRS COLLS em0 up:U 6772 8285095 0 5043 1251821 0 0 em1 dn:D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 em2 up:U 5050 1268574 0 6762 8280262 0 0 em3 dn:D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 em4 up:U 19 7136 0 774 361639 0 vmstat -iz: interrupt total rate irq0/clock 73974 100 irq144/acpi0 0 0 irq112/ppb2 0 0 irq112/em0 767598 1038 irq113/em1 0 0 irq113/ppb3 0 0 irq113/em2 1007863 1363 irq114/em3 0 0 irq114/em4 460696 623 irq115/em5 0 0 irq112/ppb7 0 0 irq96/uhci0 0 0 irq97/uhci1 0 0 irq96/uhci2 0 0 irq97/uhci3 0 0 irq96/ehci0 0 0 irq98/pciide0 2083 2 irq99/pciide1 0 0 irq99/ichiic0 0 0 irq145/com0 0 0 irq146/com1 0 0 irq147/pckbc0 304 0 irq148/pckbc0 0 0 Total 2312518 3129 The next step for us will be to swap the PCIe NICs to regular PCI to see if that does anything. On 2011-03-28 13:55, Jonathan Gray wrote: > It sounds like you have an interrupt storm what does > vmstat -iz show?