From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 2 15:32:30 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 2ACB916A4CE for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 15:32:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B0243D67 for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 15:32:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from lothlorien.nagual.st (lothlorien.nagual.st [192.168.11.1]) by nagual.st with esmtp; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 17:32:22 +0200 Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 17:32:22 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050402173222.53977dd4.dick@nagual.st> Organization: nagual.st X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: device_polling 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: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 15:32:30 -0000 I was building a new kernel today and came across an option I had not seen before. I googled some and concluded that "options device_polling / options HZ=1000" would be a better way for my realtec network cards than the default interupt driven.. Is this correct?? Would it be better to have this polling in the kernel? (fbsd-4.11-stable) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11 ++ FreeBSD 5.3 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja