Network Slowdowns?

[Richard Nyberg]

At Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:17:10 -0700 (PDT),
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
>     Ok.  Very odd.  It seems to crashing in pf_change_a(), called from
>     line 3854 of net/pf/pf.c.  It shouldn't be possible for it to crash
>     there.
> 
>     Do me a favor and try turning off MMX optimized memory copies by
>     placing the following in your /boot/loader.conf:
> 
>     kern.mmxopt=0
> 
>     Tell me if that fixes the problem.  It shouldn't actually be doing an
>     optimized mmx copy for a 4-byte sequence, but perhaps there is a bug
>     in the assembly code that is handling small copies.

Ok, I'm testing it. If it works I'll report in a week, otherwise I may
report a bit earlier ;)

Thanks!
        -Richard