From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 28 15:42:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F26416A678 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:42:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from biancalana@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4EFF43D46 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:42:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from biancalana@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so763689pye for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:42:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=O5eWaEIiIfA8H36mGGlCa59cPlY19YpVi+iS+/GOxAb/bvvg+kdb2HC1+dPvsOWeUg+uVIyXq0wjkcbUGQpzNBHhuezvl3QS6urzL2+ocQYEbH5kTVSJ/nZ2rzVVF+645fO2ajrmLYYNf0a58E77kmKt4kZ4+IMAderMsi77SFg= Received: by 10.35.69.11 with SMTP id w11mr507333pyk; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:42:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.26.5 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:42:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8e10486b0609280842g3990c281u9afcf5e7ca70fdb1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:42:17 -0300 From: "Alexandre Biancalana" To: "Dominic Marks" In-Reply-To: <20060928161800.51f914f6.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <8e10486b0609280757u2bc9b93cyfc9df589b7f4f732@mail.gmail.com> <20060928161800.51f914f6.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6-Stable High Interrupt Rate on network X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:42:19 -0000 On 9/28/06, Dominic Marks wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:57:22 -0300 > "Alexandre Biancalana" wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > Today I changed the main gateway from our network from PIII 733, 512 > MB > > Ram running FreeBSD 4-STABLE to a Xeon 3.0, 1Gb Ram running FreeBSD > > 6-STABLE. But the performance of the network is worst than before. > > How are you measuring the performance? I'm looking at some links usage... I know that you could argue that this is not consistent but these links have a very constant usage and today, after the change they have a utilization that is 20% lower than usual. My big doubt is why the new machine (that is A LOT better than the old) spend more than 50% off cpu time on interrupts when the old just arrived on 60% at "rush-time" > The new machine is a Dell PowerEdge 1800 have one quad DLink DFE-580TX, > > one quad Adaptec ANA-62044 and one on board Intel em. I enabled the > polling > > on all interfaces, set the HZ to 1000 and set kern.polling.user_frac=30, > but > > this does not happened. > > What else is the machine doing, firewall, nat, traffic > shaping, proxy? PF+NAT+Squid+Qmail+Clamav+zebedee for 4 networks and about 600 users total. -- > Dominic > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >