6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

[Tomasz Pilat]

Well, HTH - I don't have *any* problems with this configuration:

FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #6: Wed Sep 20 18:52:56 CEST 2006     root at bbox:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAILSMP

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2793.20-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf48  Stepping = 8
  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0x649d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,EST,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>>
  AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
  Cores per package: 2
  Logical CPUs per core: 2
real memory  = 9126805504 (8704 MB)
avail memory = 8302972928 (7918 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   PE BKC  >

pci6: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib6
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.1.4> port 0xecc0-0xecff mem 0xfe6e0000-0xfe6fffff irq 64 at device 7.0 on pci6
em0: [FAST]
pci7: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib7
em1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.1.4> port 0xdcc0-0xdcff mem 0xfe4e0000-0xfe4fffff irq 65 at device 8.0 on pci7
em1: [FAST]

em0 at pci6:7:0:   class=0x020000 card=0x016d1028 chip=0x10768086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
em1 at pci7:8:0:   class=0x020000 card=0x016d1028 chip=0x10768086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller'

em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
(em1 is not used)
        
interrupt                          total       rate
irq1: atkbd0                        1139          0
irq6: fdc0                             8          0
irq14: ata0                           36          0
irq18: uhci2                    21714980         37
irq23: ehci0                           3          0
irq46: amr0                     20493929         34
irq64: em0                     106173807        181
cpu0: timer                   1172649960       1999

This   is   heave   duty   mail   server,   loaded   with   a  lot  of
postfix/amavis/courier processes..

I can provide my kernel/loader/sysctl configuration at request.


Ponc
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