On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, GiZmen wrote: G> I am runnign freebsd 5.2.1 on 386 arch with two rl lan cards. My mainboard G> is on VIA KT 266A with AMD athlon 1.1. G> I read man polling and i have HZ=1000. My problem is that when i set up G> sysctl variable kern.polling.enable=1 my interrupts greatly increase. G> When my system is idle and indicate 0-1% interrupts with out polling. G> and when i turn on polling interrupts goes up to about 20% on idle system. G> Is it normal ? I never before use polling and i dont know that i have G> something bad in my system ? G> G> Can somebody explain me this ?
It seems pretty normal under such low load. polling is worth turning on when you have interrupt load spikes more than, say, 40-50% (e.g. highly saturated 100Mbps router with more than two interfaces and/or VLANs) Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
