On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 07:52:02PM +0000, David E. Cross wrote: > I have a 486DX50 firewall that has been serving me well for a number of > years. I recently upgraded it fro 5.4 to 6.0 and performance plumeted > rather drastically (about 40%). I would like to fix it. What I have > noticed is that even when sitting idle the system spends ~20% of its > time in interrupt. Below I have included dmesg, kernel config, and > vmstat -i information.
Try turning HZ=1000 back down to HZ=100. Kris
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