From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 14 08:39:35 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 AE1AD106566C for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:39:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: from n3a.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (n3a.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.13.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56DAC8FC14 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [76.13.13.26] by n3.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Sep 2009 08:39:34 -0000 Received: from [76.13.10.176] by t3.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Sep 2009 08:39:34 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp117.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Sep 2009 08:39:34 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 806135.88308.bm@omp117.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 33334 invoked by uid 60001); 14 Sep 2009 08:39:34 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1252917574; bh=eUkNi4niP0gjb3WVGg7pro9KxxekyXPAoz2VGubxah0=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=bcn0JCL0JHRG73v0xAXuxrrnZXIFkcfOKdi9SzYaVYnftp3EI2mZcNYRGzrpE59oWm/3rKYoILur2IwGitinTtdpv9QvrMKYtj16j47YzSe23APIwLPAqI7dWcMBWQ0g1GLAqKNI3ZLNhSnIz+EZDUCZZPvI+stdlWc7q0aOxSI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=6D+47hK8nPp4/n32x1bAmbTcQHujW6tAtY4UBGXyyv3f8Uz2vq/XJYj3HiDCGI1kNexi/jn/odWdGXEqoFxk8Mm+bF787isk7gebQ6xB8D6bq31FXPYRm8jIPwqWRDvdc5rINGyUzLzUgqXRxAvLP3FlJginJLsIhSyMG8Ppui8=; Message-ID: <604691.33140.qm@web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: OoUZdrUVM1n6YSd2ccrYtNuMOHIanDxz8xcEulNT37V7YM2OkJBaYOIiDEd4tHMeI57gm1YXXIasTkUPQFrq.m8PYeJAxopJrD.1U88e3s4e.91CQ2psZCt7VZY2.yDE25WtRRYPFX0uHE6wVGljgwQ1sjpFj7bOKotp8T5UNqbXD3owlSTM2Ij7vVa55AeASfprAoGYYIExGuHOwX4zm2nV6PcDEZL8XYRfgbPPbBj8erVuR3GinbzVoNWjz5MXYcYYTRlJ9P75evFg3MBiYn5oDnq8pa8DGjeUnHrUNVUrALlm Received: from [98.203.21.152] by web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:39:34 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/6.1.2 YahooMailWebService/0.7.347.2 Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:39:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Barney Cordoba To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4AACEF9E.90303@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:39:35 -0000 --- On Sun, 9/13/09, rihad wrote: > From: rihad > Subject: Re: [POLLING] strange interrupt/system load > To: "Barney Cordoba" > Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 9:11 AM > 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? Suit yourself, but the empirical evidence suggests otherwise. Barney