Re: tg3 bad performance, lots of hardware interrupts

[Michael Chan]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:04 +0200, Harald Hannelius wrote:
> Phew, I thought that running ethtool -t was like doing stop-A-sync on
> a 
> Sun. It took almost half an hour to run that ethtool -t command;

Something is very wrong.  ethtool -t should only take a few seconds to
complete.  You can try ethtool -t eth0 online to reduce the number of
tests to see if it makes a difference.

How many of these NICs do you have?  If you have more than one, do they
all behave the same way?  Have they ever worked well before?

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