em interrupt storm

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Nov 23 08:31:19 GMT 2005


On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:22:45AM +0100, Massimo Lusetti wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 22:03 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > I am seeing the em driver undergoing an interrupt storm whenever the
> > amr driver receives interrupts.  In this case I was running newfs on
> > the amr array and em0 was not in use:
> [..]
> > This is on both 6.0-RELEASE and 6.0-STABLE.
> 
> Wow, I've just ordered a machine with that same hardware to replace a
> mailserver.

Maybe it'll be OK if you disable the onboard NIC and use a different
one.

Kris
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