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Date:      Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:11:11 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@saturn.lyxys.ka.sub.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: high interrupt load under 6.0?
Message-ID:  <200602182011.k1IKBB7a079573@saturn.lyxys.ka.sub.org>
In-Reply-To: <1140292322.11473.10.camel@honker.internal.dcrosstech.com>

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Hi,

> I have a 486DX50 firewall that has been serving me well for a number of
> years.  I recently upgraded it fro 5.4 to 6.0 and performance plumeted
> rather drastically (about 40%).  I would like to fix it.  What I have
> noticed is that even when sitting idle the system spends ~20% of its
> time in interrupt.  Below I have included dmesg, kernel config, and
> vmstat -i information.
> [..]
> interrupt                          total       rate
> irq0: clk                      203894894       1000

a clock rate of 1000 Hz is probably to high for a 486 class cpu.
You should add "options HZ=100" to your kernel config to get back
to the 100 Hz that where default before 6.0

Wolfgang



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