From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 02:45:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F050416A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 02:45:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6138643D2D for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 02:45:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from BARTON (cpe-065-184-201-054.ec.rr.com [65.184.201.54]) j052jrkc018297 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:45:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:50:42 +0000 From: jason henson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1104726087l.89396l.0l@BARTON> <441xd1ufkl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <441xd1ufkl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> (from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org on Tue Jan 4 15:03:54 2005) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.2.6 Message-Id: <1104893442l.3792l.0l@BARTON> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: rtc wants more hz! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:45:59 -0000 On 01/04/05 15:03:54, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > jason henson writes: >=20 > > I found this old thread on it: > > =20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-April/026160.html > > > > If I raise the hz option in my kernel config will it adversely > affect > > anything else like network performance? >=20 > That depends on a lot of things, including your hardware and your > typical workload. It could well *improve* your system performance. > Try it and see. [My set-of-the-pants guess is that it will have only > a minimal effect, but I may well be wrong.] >=20 > -- Thanks, I have no more rtc requests for a higher setting now in my =20 logs. I use ports/net/nvnet as my net work driver and here is some =20 info on what it is doing. hw.nv_pollinterval: 1000 dev.nv.0.%desc: NVIDIA nForce MCP2 Networking Adapter dev.nv.0.%driver: nv dev.nv.0.%location: slot=3D4 function=3D0 handle=3D\_SB_.PCI0.MMAC dev.nv.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=3D0x10de device=3D0x0066 subvendor=3D0x1695 =20 subdevice=3D0x1000 class=3D0x020000 dev.nv.0.%parent: pci0 dev.nv.0.wake: 0 dev.miibus.0.%parent: nv0