Hi. On 11.04.2013 01:39, Chris Forgeron wrote: > I do not experience the error if I load up vmware tools and use the vmx3f0 > adapter, it's just with em0. > > I have set the mbufs to very high numbers (322144) to buy more time between > lockups/crashes. Most often the systems stay functional, they just need a > reboot or more mbufs if I add them. Some times they lock up or crash as I > ifconfig down/up the adapter or attempt to add more mbufs via sysctl. > > 1) Is anyone else able to reproduce this problem? The PR is still open, > which says to me not all of us can be having this problem or there would be > more drive to fix. > 2) What do I need to help with to advance this problem? It's not just my > systems, as evidenced by the original poster of the PR. > (I'm the author of the PR). I was experiencing this on 9.0 'till some -STABLE, after that the leak was gone on the exactly same configuration. This server is equipped with bce(4) interfaces only, so I don't see any connection with interface driver. I think it's more configuration related. I created this pr in order to investigate why one of my 9.x servers hangs periodically. Since that I tried lots of 9-STABLE snapshots, none of them fixed my problem. Last month I decided to switch to 10.x. The uptime is 37 days so far, none of my 9.x snapshots was able to stand that long. Even if this machine will crash while I write this - this definitely means that 10.x right now is at least equally stable as 9.x is, and can run as smoothly as 9.x does.
My advice - use 10.0-CURRENT, 9.0 and all of it's descendant versions are broken beyond repair, imo. Switching to 10.x was a hard decision for me too, I was too scared by the '-CURRENT' karma. Seems like it's not that creepy. Eugene. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
