I have a Supermicro 5015A-H (Intel Atom 330) server with two Realtek
RTL8111C-GR gigabit NICs on it. As far as I can tell, these support
jumbo frames up to 7422 bytes. When running them at an MTU of 5000 on
FreeBSD 9.0-RC2, after a week or so of update, with fairly light network
activity, the interfaces die with "no memory for jumbo buffers" errors
on the console. Unloading and reloading the driver (via serial console)
doesn't help; only rebooting seems to clear it up.
I don't have this issue with any of my em(4) based systems that are also
using a 5000 byte MTU -- and they push considerably more traffic.
I don't really consider this a regression from FreeBSD 8.2 because 8.2
didn't support jumbos at all on this hardware... :)
What's the best way to go about debugging this... which sysctl's should
I be looking at first? I have already tried raising kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9
to 16384 and it doesn't seem to help things... maybe prolonging it
slightly, but not by much. The problem is it takes a week or so to
reproduce the problem each time...
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