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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>
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Subject: Re: Freezing or stalling current system
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:20:49AM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> 
> I'm sort of assuming that the bge0: timeouts and coalesced links are due 
> to the freezing.
> 

Does the following help?

-- 
Steve

Index: bge/if_bge.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c,v
retrieving revision 1.214
diff -c -p -r1.214 if_bge.c
*** bge/if_bge.c	14 Oct 2008 20:28:42 -0000	1.214
--- bge/if_bge.c	18 Oct 2008 00:19:30 -0000
*************** bge_attach(device_t dev)
*** 2581,2589 ****
  	/* Set default tuneable values. */
  	sc->bge_stat_ticks = BGE_TICKS_PER_SEC;
  	sc->bge_rx_coal_ticks = 150;
! 	sc->bge_tx_coal_ticks = 150;
! 	sc->bge_rx_max_coal_bds = 10;
! 	sc->bge_tx_max_coal_bds = 10;
  
  	/* Set up ifnet structure */
  	ifp = sc->bge_ifp = if_alloc(IFT_ETHER);
--- 2581,2589 ----
  	/* Set default tuneable values. */
  	sc->bge_stat_ticks = BGE_TICKS_PER_SEC;
  	sc->bge_rx_coal_ticks = 150;
! 	sc->bge_tx_coal_ticks = 1500000;
! 	sc->bge_rx_max_coal_bds = 32;
! 	sc->bge_tx_max_coal_bds = 300;
  
  	/* Set up ifnet structure */
  	ifp = sc->bge_ifp = if_alloc(IFT_ETHER);
Index: bge/if_bgereg.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h,v
retrieving revision 1.81
diff -c -p -r1.81 if_bgereg.h
*** bge/if_bgereg.h	14 Oct 2008 20:28:42 -0000	1.81
--- bge/if_bgereg.h	18 Oct 2008 00:19:30 -0000
*************** struct bge_gib {
*** 2414,2420 ****
   * allocated for the standard, mini and jumbo receive rings.
   */
  
! #define	BGE_SSLOTS	256
  #define	BGE_MSLOTS	256
  #define	BGE_JSLOTS	384
  
--- 2414,2420 ----
   * allocated for the standard, mini and jumbo receive rings.
   */
  
! #define	BGE_SSLOTS	512
  #define	BGE_MSLOTS	256
  #define	BGE_JSLOTS	384