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Date:      Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:02:33 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Christer Solskogen <solskogen@carebears.mine.nu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: High load - lost network
Message-ID:  <20081111080233.GA91743@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <gfbe2i$hb$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <gf9ado$n70$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081110145952.GA72821@icarus.home.lan> <gf9otb$poo$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081111003234.GA83329@icarus.home.lan> <gfbbaj$pv9$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081111074043.GA91207@icarus.home.lan> <gfbe2i$hb$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:00:18AM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 
> > I'm not really sure anyone will know how to fix this.  Sometimes a BIOS
> > upgrade can fix such things, other times motherboard replacements are in
> > order.
> > 
> 
> I'll check the BIOS and see if I could do something with it.
> If I enable POLLING, could that fix the problem?

Simply put: I don't know.  Based on the polling(4) man page, it might
improve things for you, but your ATA high interrupt rate problem will
still exist even if you use polling(4).

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
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