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Subject: Re: netisr issues
From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> wrote:

> Freddie
>    So should I be adjusting the numbers of threads or is this
> determined somewhere ?
>
> I think it's supposed to be automatic, 1 thread per CPU, but I manually
set it  via /boot/loader.conf:
net.isr.bindthreads="1"                         # Bind netisr threads to
CPU cores
net.isr.maxthreads="8"                          # Set number of threads to
number of CPU cores
net.isr.numthreads="8"                          #    ""

The net.isr.dispatch is automatically set to direct on our systems.  Not
sure if that's the default or not.  We used to set that via
/boot/loader.conf as well, but it was removed in the upgrade to 9-STABLE
something as it no longer did anything.

-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash@gmail.com