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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:18:31 +0530
From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
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On 5/11/2005 13:13, Rob wrote:

>--- Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>On 5/11/2005 8:04, Rob wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>All computers are running 5-Stable, as of May 10.
>>>All, but PC1 with fxp, use polling, with:
>>>  options DEVICE_POLLING
>>>  options HZ=1000
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>1000 IMHO seems a bit too heavy. Try something
>>lower.
>>    
>>
>
>Same problem. Ssh-tunnel connection is also disrupted
>with HZ=100. May I conclude that the HZ value is not
>the culprit? Or should I try once again with HZ=10?
>
>kern.ipc.nmbclusters is 4928 for this PC.
>Is that good or bad?
>
>"sysctl -a | grep -i polling" gives following:
>kern.polling.burst: 150
>kern.polling.each_burst: 5
>kern.polling.burst_max: 150
>kern.polling.idle_poll: 0
>kern.polling.poll_in_trap: 0
>kern.polling.user_frac: 50
>kern.polling.reg_frac: 20
>kern.polling.short_ticks: 0
>kern.polling.lost_polls: 6
>kern.polling.pending_polls: 0
>kern.polling.residual_burst: 0
>kern.polling.handlers: 0
>kern.polling.enable: 0
>  
>
Force this to be 1. Damn I should have noted it earlier

Regards
S.

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