kern/92675: [fxp] [patch] fxp(4) unable to recover from occasional receiver unit allocation failure

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

The following reply was made to PR kern/92675; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer at FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org, "Dan Bilik" <dan at mail.neosystem.cz>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/92675: [fxp] [patch] fxp(4) unable to recover from occasional receiver unit allocation failure
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:13:44 +0300

 On 2/22/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
 > Thanks a lot, Dan! Your patch works for me.
 >
 > I have the same chip in a dual-PIII i386
 > box. I started experiencing the problem
 > when the load got up to 4-5kpps (squid).
 > Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 did not help,
 > link0 had no effect. The adapter kept
 > locking up once in a while, I had to use
 > serial console to ifconfig it down and up.
 >
 > Now everything works fine, there's no
 > obvious performance impact, either.
 
 Today, after a month of 24/7 operation the
 card locked up again. ifconfig down-up helped,
 as usual.