From owner-freebsd-net Tue Mar 12 0:10:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from musique.teaser.net (musique.teaser.net [213.91.2.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BEB37B404 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:10:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrunner.rominet.net (rominet-tunnel.adsl.teaser.net [213.91.2.229]) by musique.teaser.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF8C7254A for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:10:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by roadrunner.rominet.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 50ECE80D4; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:10:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:10:17 +0100 From: Alain Thivillon To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: DEVICE_POLLING and kern.polling.{suspect,lost_polls} Message-ID: <20020312081017.GT276@roadrunner.rominet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i X-Organization: Rominet Networks Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, This morning i turned on polling (as in -STABLE of yesterday) on a firewall box running ipfilter. From now everything looks good (but most of users are coming only after 10 AM UTC ...), but i already have: kern.polling.lost_polls: 557 kern.polling.suspect: 468 (with ~ 200 000 routed datagrams) This in on a fxp driver, with vlan enabled. On another box (connected only to 512Kbits adsl network with pppoe) running polling for one week i see: kern.polling.short_ticks: 1158 kern.polling.lost_polls: 13710 kern.polling.suspect: 13603 What exactly mean these variables ? Should i worry ? -- A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message