FreeBSD as PF/Router/Firewall dying on the vine

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 06:08:50PM -0700, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote:
> Hello All:
> 
> We have a load balanced pair of PF boxes sitting in front of a whole bunch of server doing all manner of things!  It's been working great up until today when it, well, didn't.  Here's what I see in top -S.
> 
>   PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>    14 root             1 -44 -163     0K     8K CPU1   0  44:21 88.18% swi1: net
>    11 root             1 171   52     0K     8K RUN    0  24:58 53.32% idle: cpu0
>    10 root             1 171   52     0K     8K RUN    1  17:44 35.50% idle: cpu1
>    24 root             1 -68 -187     0K     8K *Giant 0   5:30 11.62% irq16: em2 uhci3
>    23 root             1 -68 -187     0K     8K WAIT   0   1:27  3.08% irq25: em1
>    25 root             1 -68 -187     0K     8K WAIT   1   1:16  2.64% irq17: em3
> 
> This is 6.3 with Intel 1000 Fiber and Copper interfaces, all using the 'em' driver.  Also, there are 15 VLAN's configured on one of the NIC's for subnet separation.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears.  My google-fu is coming up empty with the swi1: net 

Can you explain what the problem is?

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