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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:58:02 -0600
From:      "Guy Helmer" <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>
To:        "'Jeff Behl'" <jeff@expertcity.com>, <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: polling on 4.7 crash...
Message-ID:  <001301c28c52$d69bb210$0200000a@spencer>
In-Reply-To: <3DD41EC5.7060707@expertcity.com>

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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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