O. Hartmann wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:26:42PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:21:32AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
And so looks mine, FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64,
high I/O on disks and I/O on net renders this box unusuable ...
thor# vmstat -i
interrupt total rate
irq1: atkbd0 12437 1
irq6: fdc0 27 0
irq12: psm0 335285 42
irq14: ata0 215 0
irq17: fwohci0 1 0
irq20: atapci1 102616 12
irq21: ohci0+ 2 0
irq22: nve0 ehci0 7594338 956
irq23: pcm0 41007 5
cpu0: timer 31752206 3999
Total 39838134 5018
You don't appear to be using the em driver. Can you confirm?
Kris
positive.
It's probably a nve driver bug then, you should talk to the driver
author. This may not be fixable in FreeBSD since it's a binary
driver, so bug fixes mostly need to be done by the vendor.
The OP may want to try the nfe driver, which I've been using very
happily on my amd64/nforce4 system for several months.
I did for a while (most recent driver I could get from the mentioned
japanese location) but the box got stuck after a while of network I/O.
On the other hand, at this moment I play around with FreeBSD 6.2-PRE and
do nearly every second day a build world, so it bothers me a bit doing
the recommended patches.
But your're wight. nfe() triggers a lot less interrupts than this binary
Linux crap nve - for the time it runs. I would appreciate a soon
occurence of the nfe driver in the STABLE or even in the 6.2-RELEASE code.
You can get the latest NFE driver from cvs
cvs -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs co
src/sys/modules/nfe src/sys/dev/nfe
Also you have to change by hand src/sys/modules/Makefile
cvs -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs co
src/sys/modules/Makefile
to see the diff, then recompile kernel :) (only lines with "nfe" are
interesting)
While talking about NFE driver, is it planned freebsd-6.2 to ship with it ?
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