Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:02:48 +0200 From: peceka <peceka@gmail.com> To: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Vlad GALU <vladgalu@gmail.com> Subject: Re[2]: device polling and high load averages Message-ID: <06021512.20050927130248@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050927031346.043d5060@cobalt.antimatter.net> References: <1413940267.20050927112619@gmail.com> <79722fad05092702411f0b15e1@mail.gmail.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20050927031346.043d5060@cobalt.antimatter.net>
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Witaj Glenn, W Twoim li=9Ccie datowanym 27 wrze=9Cnia 2005 (12:14:25) mo=BFna przeczyta= =E6: > At 02:41 AM 9/27/2005, Vlad GALU wrote: >>On 9/27/05, peceka <peceka@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I've got: >> > fw3# uname -r >> > 5.4-RELEASE-p7 >> > >> > in my kernel config i've set: >> > options HZ=3D1000 >> > options DEVICE_POLLING >> > >> > fw3# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep ifconfig >> > ifconfig_em0=3D"inet 192.168.1.251 netmask 255.255.255.0 polling" >> > >> > fw3# cat /etc/sysctl.conf | grep poll >> > kern.polling.enable=3D1 >> > kern.polling.idle_poll=3D1 >> > >> > And all the time i've got: >> > fw3# uptime >> > 11:22AM up 1:59, 1 user, load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 0.96 >> > >> > from top: >> > last pid: 88131; load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 0.96 >> > 24 processes: 1 running, 23 sleeping >> > CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 99.2% system, 0.8%=20 >> interrupt, 0.0% idle >> > >> > But this machine do nothing, just pure FBSD system. So why there is >> > such high load aver.? >> > >> >> Because of kern.polling.idle_poll. > and a load average of 1 isn't exactly "high" either... But for machine which does nothing? CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (3200.13-MHz 686-class CPU) real memory =3D 1341063168 (1278 MB) What to do with kern.polling.idle_poll? It is needed to be set to 1? What does this do? Best regards, p.
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