On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Lenny <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, > > I'm really desperate:( > Last week I replaced the Intel Dual NIC with a new one of the same kind > (82546GB). > For a week of low load (6kpps on average) I never saw a single error on the > interfaces, but yesterday came the high load and it happened again. > So I'm totally out of ideas. > > The main problem remains: the minute I get high load (about 14-18kpps, > 250000 states, 120Mb traffic), the em0 and em1 taskq processes lock on 100% > each and the website becomes unresponsive or very slow. I also started to > see errors on the interfaces again. The moment I release some of that load - > everything is back to normal. > Just to remind you, my hardware is IBM x335 server, 2 x Xeon 3.06GHz CPU, > 2GB RAM, Intel Dual NIC PCI-X. > By the way, the total CPU load I see at these situations is 40-50%. It's a > SMP setup, so the taskq processes lock the 2 out of 4 CPUs available. > Should I go on and mess with em drivers? What should I change there if so? >
You using 1.2.2 or 1.2.3? If 1.2.2 or earlier, the best I can suggest is trying 1.2.3 since it's based on a newer FreeBSD and has newer em(4) driver. Aside from that, you're looking at a FreeBSD issue of some sort and there isn't much if anything we can do to help you there. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
