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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:36:44 -0800
From:      Jeff Behl <jeff@expertcity.com>
To:        Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: polling on 4.7 crash...
Message-ID:  <3DD53EBC.4040204@expertcity.com>
References:  <001301c28c52$d69bb210$0200000a@spencer>

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Great! I've instaleld rev. 1.110.2.27 so we'll see how it fares.

Thanks much!

Jeff



Guy Helmer wrote:
> Jeff Behl wrote:
> 
>>FreeBSD rack1-5.nwk 4.7-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p1 #1: Tue Nov
> 
> 12
> 
>>10:37:37 PST 2002
>>root@rack1-5.nwk:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC2  i386
>>
>>Has anyone had problems with polling on a 4.7 box?  It worked 
>>for about
>>24 hours then blew up with the below.  While it worked it worked
>>fantastically, dropping cpu time spent in interrupt from ~%40 to %0.
>>
>>The system was using the fxp driver and was sniffing a fully saturated
>>100mb line while doing very little trasnmitting of data 
>>itself.  I don't
>>see how HUPing syslogd could have caused it, but it did happen at the
>>same time.
> 
> 
> Yes, Ian Dowse just committed a fix to if_fxp.c in 4.7-stable (and
> previously, to -current) that solved this problem with the fxp driver.
> Look for rev. 1.110.2.27 of if_fxp.c
> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c) or
> cvsup the updates.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Guy


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