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Date:      Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:10:12 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.
Message-ID:  <6.1.2.0.0.20041008120745.106ae7b0@64.7.153.2>
In-Reply-To: <16742.40802.187425.402461@canoe.dclg.ca>
References:  <16742.40802.187425.402461@canoe.dclg.ca>

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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 



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