Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 18:13:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD belly up with big config Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008051812350.90823-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <200008051708.NAA00486@etinc.com>
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On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Dennis wrote: > With 1800 interfaces in the system Freebsd seems to use about 50Mhz of cpu > when idle in "interrupts" even when there are no interrupts to process. on > a 500Mhz box it uses 10% of the cpu and it seems linear with different > speed processors. I would suspect the interface list is stored as a linear list and doesn't scale up to that level. > It seems that there is substantial overhead just scanning interfaces for > some routine maintenance...is there any hope of alleviating this deboggle? Send patches to rewrite the interface list to use some other data structure. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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