em interrupt storm

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Dec 1 11:48:51 PST 2005


On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:32:10AM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> On Thursday 24 November 2005 01:27 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:02:05PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> > > Until this gets "fixed" in FreeBSD, what should those of us who are
> > > effectively stuck with this hardware do to avoid the problem?  Does the
> > > problem exist in RELENG_4?
> >
> > Yes, on the same machine I first mentioned.
> 
> Is this is SMP on or off?  I think it might be okay if SMP if off.

With SMP, I don't recall if I tried it without.  SMP is pretty useless
on 4.x (often hurts more than it helps), so this may be an acceptable
workaround for the OP.

Kris
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