Wow. Somehow we've slipped through a one-year timewarp: On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:47:54AM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 07:40, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > > After the last rebuild on my amd64-x2 box, both the nve ethernet > > on the motherboard and the dc ethernet that I had been using to > > work around other problems in the nve driver stopped working in > > this way. DEVICE_POLLING and ifconfig...polling has got me > > going again. I thoroughly recommend it. > > > > nve does not run polling mode but dc does > > I guess you have an IRQ conflict, nve and dc on the same hw interrupt, and > that setting dc in polling mode worked around this problem then > > you could check vmstat -i with and without polling enabled to see it
Thanks for the tip. I haven't been running dc or nve for about a year, now :-) Nfe has been working beautifully for me, without polling. I guess that I should have a look to see if nve has improved in the interim, but it's difficult to make oneself mess with something that isn't broken... Cheers, -- Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
