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Date:      Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:38:00 +0500
From:      rihad <rihad@mail.ru>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [POLLING] strange interrupt/system load
Message-ID:  <4AADF2D8.5050505@mail.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20090912202529.X1569@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <4AAB4D56.30207@mail.ru> <20090912202529.X1569@besplex.bde.org>

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Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, rihad wrote:
> 
>> The box experiences ~230 mbit/s traffic flow through it. I've doubled 
>> some sysctls after reading polling(4):
>> kern.polling.each_burst=10 # was: 5
>> kern.polling.burst_max=350 # was: 150
>>
>> FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 amd64
>> HZ=1000
> 
> How much better does it work without POLLING?
> 
Without polling (current load around 190-200 mbit/s, around 24-26 kpps):

top:
CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  8.4% system,  0.0% interrupt, 91.6% idle

Interrupts/s: 18322 total
28 mpt0 irq16
1999 cpu0: time
6906 em0 irq256
3392 em1 irq257
1999 cpu1: time
1999 cpu2: time
1999 cpu3: time



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