Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:31:47 +0000 From: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: high interrupt load under 6.0? Message-ID: <1144794707.81364.10.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060218200552.GA16805@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1140292322.11473.10.camel@honker.internal.dcrosstech.com> <20060218200552.GA16805@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Zuh, holy delayed reply.. but I figured for at least the sake of web-search engines I should reply and say that this was indeed the fix. Thank you. -- David E. Cross On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 15:05 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 07:52:02PM +0000, David E. Cross wrote: > > I have a 486DX50 firewall that has been serving me well for a number of > > years. I recently upgraded it fro 5.4 to 6.0 and performance plumeted > > rather drastically (about 40%). I would like to fix it. What I have > > noticed is that even when sitting idle the system spends ~20% of its > > time in interrupt. Below I have included dmesg, kernel config, and > > vmstat -i information. > > Try turning HZ=1000 back down to HZ=100. > > Kris
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