30 2006 23:23, Mikhail Teterin :
> Ok. I rebooted and restarted the heavy traffic dump (DEVICE_POLLING in
> kernel, but without polling actialy enabled). The dump got underway,
> although the amount of "sys" load was rather high -- way above 70%
> most of the time (on a dual-CPU machine).
>
> Then I tried to enable polling. The following command worked fine:
>
> (ifconfig em0 down; sleep 1; ifconfig em0 polling; sleep 1; ifconfig em0
> up) &
>
> Traffic resumed a couple of second later...
>
> A minute later, ALL TRAFFIC stopped. The machine is, again, unreachable
> via network...
>
> Conclusion: The only way to have a working em-interface is to compile
> with DEVICE_POLLING, but without polling enabled... It is slow (very CPU
> intensive), but it seems to work...
FWIW, enabling polling at boot (via rc.conf) does not change anything
either...
-mi