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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:13:57 +0400
From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To: Ferdinand Goldmann <ferdinand.goldmann@jku.at>
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Subject: Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:24:20PM +0200, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote:
F> >In one case, we had a system acting as a router. It was a Dell PowerEdge 
F> >2650, with two dual "server" adapters. each were on separate PCI busses. 
F> >3 were "lan" links, and one was a "wan" link. The lan links were 
F> >receiving about 300mbps each, all going out the "wan" link at near 
F> >900mbps at peak. We were never able to get above 944mbps, but I never 
F> >cared enough to figure out where the bottleneck was there.
F> 
F> Forgot to ask - do you have fastforwarding enabled in your sysctl?

If you enable fastforwarding, but do not disable polling, thiw won't
lead to any difference.

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