On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:43:17PM +0100, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote: F> I have a 3com 3c996-SX card running under FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. F> Performance is quite ok so far, but interrupt load is very high. F> (Machine is working as a traffic shaping device/firewall) F> F> # vmstat -i F> interrupt total rate F> irq18: bge0 153244636 5014 F> irq27: fxp0 102056377 3339 F> F> Often, interrupt load will hit almost 100%. I guess the bge driver does not F> support polling, but I remember reading somewhere that it supports F> interrupt moderation? How would I enable this? On the em driver, this could F> be done via sysctl. Does anyone have hints on performance improvement F> concerning interrupt load?
It supports polling(4) in RELENG_6. (6.0-RELEASE is not enough) -- Totus tuus, Glebius. GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
