From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 07:47:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A7416A4D0 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 07:47:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4F243D62 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 07:47:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so53717rnf for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:47:06 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; b=FBFELfoFRUFcVfYl/FlsN78LNk3c2D1AXtXw4ZeZPPG3wstGkofH407Mv8PAY8C2yKcYkUbprNT5MoblEM+zUHvlCJ0cCfmL+Ug3tgYDj0MjdY6INQ1t1dADd4UKBXmpPMob/eKUUU8uyWp3VGvXnkQu7vs+uJiG6irxKiljkoc= Received: by 10.38.82.11 with SMTP id f11mr278509rnb; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:47:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?59.93.164.66? ([59.93.164.66]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id m36sm10227rnd.2005.05.11.00.47.04; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:47:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4281B873.7020208@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:16:59 +0530 From: Subhro Organization: Indian Institute of Information Technology User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob References: <20050511074309.8454.qmail@web54001.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050511074309.8454.qmail@web54001.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------020007020503090001060109" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:29:33 +0000 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: FreeBSD current cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: xl(4) & polling X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 07:47:08 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020007020503090001060109 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/11/2005 13:13, Rob wrote: >--- Subhro 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? > > 100 should be fine. 10 would be a bit too much overkill. >kern.ipc.nmbclusters is 4928 for this PC. >Is that good or bad? > > What is the purpose of the box? Give a description of the network traffic. >"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 >kern.polling.phase: 0 >kern.polling.suspect: 6 >kern.polling.stalled: 0 >kern.polling.idlepoll_sleeping: 1 ><118>kern.polling.enable: ><118>xl0: flags=18843 MULTICAST,POLLING> mtu 1500 ><118> options=49 ><118>xl1: flags=18843 MULTICAST,POLLING> mtu 1500 ><118> options=49 > > > Did you use any strange CFLAGS like -O3 or -f* compile time options when you built the system? Regards S. --------------020007020503090001060109--