svn: stable/7/sys: conf dev/bce

[Tom Judge]

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Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Stanislav Sedov wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:25:03 -0800
>> Maxim Sobolev <sobomax at FreeBSD.org> mentioned:
>>
>>> Can we change the name then? We've seen the similar issue without the
>>> jumbo frames, which made me wonder.
>>
>> It's strange, because 'normal' frames are less than a page size in
>> length,
>> so the issue I was experiencing should not be reproducable with jumbo
>> frames
>> disabled.  Can you describe a bit more what kind of problem you're
>> experiencing?
> 
> The traffic through interface abruptly halts randomly when under a load,
> without any signs of a problem. What is interesting is that the
> communication through unix domain sockets appears to be down too, since
> some scripts that connect to database not able to complete as well, so
> whatever this problem is it affect the whole network subsystem. We tried
> to replace hardware and it did not help. Only after we replaced bce(4)
> with IntelPro card (em) the problem has went away.
> 
> -Maxim

When you see this lock up do you also see denied requests for mbufs?

All the times I have seen the issue, the system was denying mbuf requests.

Tom

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