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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:10:12 -0400
To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
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From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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Subject: Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.
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At 10:08 AM 08/10/2004, David Gilbert wrote:

>Right out of the box, FreeBSD 5.3 (with polling) passed about 200
>kpps.  net.isr.enable=1 increased that without polling to about 220

Did you have kern.polling.idle_poll at 0 or 1 ? In my tests a few weeks ago 
this seemed to make a difference, but the load avg gets messed up.  Also, 
HZ does seem to make a difference at least in my tests on BETA5.

         ---Mike