RELENG_7_1: bce driver change generating too much interrupts ?

[Mike Jakubik]

On Mon, December 8, 2008 4:29 am, Oleg Gorokhov wrote:
> This patch committed fixes the issue reported earlier with interruptions
> but there is one more problem discussed here:
>
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2008-11/msg00144.html
>
> We also have observed similar bad behavior for network (especially
> ssl-based) operations: imaps, ssh and smtp starttls connections - all of
> them were failed to establish after a day of successful operation:
>

I wonder if my problem is related to this. I have a java chat service
application that starts dropping connections after about 4 days of uptime.
There is nothing in the applications logs, and i know this works fine on
Linux. Will try updating to the latest bce patch tonight to see if it
helps.