From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 13 13:12:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A208A106568D for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:12:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rihad@mail.ru) Received: from mx71.mail.ru (mx71.mail.ru [94.100.176.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610B58FC18 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:12:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [217.25.27.27] (port=2373 helo=[217.25.27.27]) by mx71.mail.ru with asmtp id 1Mmos3-000Gir-00; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:11:59 +0400 Message-ID: <4AACEF9E.90303@mail.ru> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:11:58 +0500 From: rihad User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090706) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barney Cordoba References: <651317.63257.qm@web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <651317.63257.qm@web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: Not detected X-Mras: Ok Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [POLLING] strange interrupt/system load X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:12:01 -0000 Barney Cordoba wrote: > 1) Why are you polling with a NIC that can be precisely set to > interrupt as often or as little as you like? How? > 2) Why do so many people run systems with high network load with > AMD64 builds when its significantly slower to do so? Do you have > google sized databases so you need 64-bit pointers? What's wrong with 64 bits?