Tom Judge wrote: > Weldon S Godfrey 3 wrote: >> >> >> If memory serves me right, sometime around 9:37am, Pieter de Goeje >> told me: >> >>> Are you perhaps using em(4)? There was an mbuf leak in the driver, >>> which was fixed recently. >>> You can check mbuf usage with netstat -m. >>> >> >> we are using onboard NICs on the Dell using the bce driver. We did >> try several times to see if using an intel PCIexpress card using the >> em driver, and we had the same symptoms. >> >> Could the bce driver have the same leak? > > The bce driver does not have a memory leak, it does however have a bug > which causes memory fragmentation leading to denied mbuf allocation. > > > There is a work around for this in current, you can get the patch like > this: > > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/ > That should be: svn diff -r 198319:198320 http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head > You need to put > > options BCE_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT > > In your kernel to enable the work arround. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Tue Nov 03 2009 - 15:54:47 UTC
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