Re: em interrupt storm

From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko_at_ambrisko.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:53:00 -0800 (PST)
Kris Kennaway writes:
| 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.

Could you try without SMP?  I wonder if the BIOS sets things up okay
in UP mode.  I saw strangeness on our PE2850's in SMP mode that didn't
happen in UP mode.  This is with 4.X.

Thanks,

Doug A.
Received on Thu Dec 01 2005 - 18:53:04 UTC

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