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From: Jordi Espasa Clofent <jordi.espasa@opengea.org>
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Subject: Maximum NIC interrupts
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Hi all,

I know how to monitoring the NIC IRQ's consume, with tools as vmstat (-i 
flag), systat (-vm 1) or netstat (-m, -i), but I don't know how to 
determine the maximum interrupts that these NICs can give.

I've several SuperMicro servers with Intel Pro 1000 PT NICs, which are 
controlled by em(4) driver. I've done some performance tests (with tools 
as iperf or netperf) with great results, but I don't know exactly the 
hardware limits, because I don't know the maximum IRQ rate.

Obviously, before post this present message I've read a lot of 
documentation provided by vendor (Intel in this case) but I've not found it.

-- 
Thanks,
Jordi Espasa Clofent