become worse now - Re: one virtualbox vm disrupts all vms and entire network - finally fixed now

[Carmel]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:05:27 -0400
Steve Tuts articulated:

> finally fixed now, see fully reply in the end.

Seriously, couldn't you have stripped out all of the redundant data
before continuing?

> It turned out this might not be a virtualbox problem, as searching
> "freebsd network problem" has quite some problem, especially this
> page shows theBroadcom bce card problem (which is what we have) and
> the solution. After
> adding
> 
> kern.ipc.nmbclusters="131072"
> hw.bce.tso_enable=0
> hw.pci.enable_msix=0
> 
> to /boot/loader.conf.local and reboot, no network problem has occured
> for 3.5 days, while there were 3-7 occurrance of the network problem
> every day.  So consider this problem finally solved.
> 
> So it appears to be a Broadcom driver issue and probably system
> tuning issue.

Have you filed a PR against it?

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