Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion. Can you tell me how to disable specific > controllers? Were you thinking BIOS? or FreeBSD? I meant to say to disable them in the BIOS. I'm afraid there is no generic way to disable specific devices in FreeBSD anymore. That's what I tho

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
John Polstra wrote: The problem involving the "em" device was solved in -current around January by making the device use a fast interrupt handler. If you can update to the latest driver from -current (if it will build on whatever version you are running), you can solve that part of the problem.

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > From your dmesg excerpt it seems that you have at least > > three USB controllers in that machine. Depending on your > > requirements, it might make sense to disable all of them > > _except_ one, and then connect your USB devices to that > > one

RE: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-19 Thread John Polstra
On 17-Jul-2006 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > I was monitoring a machine with "systat -vmstat" and noticed something > about the interrupts and I don't know if it's a problem or not. If it > is a problem, is there anything I can do about it? > > The interrupts for the network interface (em0) on irq 64 exac

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Oliver Fromme wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > There's no easy answer on this. You'll have to run your own benchmarks. If > > you don't need USB, then you may just want to leave it out of your kernel > > which might help some. > > OK, thanks for the info and suggestions.

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > There's no easy answer on this. You'll have to run your own benchmarks. > > If > > you don't need USB, then you may just want to leave it out of your kernel > > which might help some. > > OK, thanks for the info and suggestions. Regrettabl

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
John Baldwin wrote: Interrupt storm detected on "irq18: uhci2"; throttling interrupt source which ties to the disk interrupt. Will that be slowing things down? Would increasing the storm threshold help (especially disk performance)? Guess I'm looking for any mitigation that might be

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 17 July 2006 12:41, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > >On Monday 17 July 2006 10:22, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > > > > >>No responses from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone here understand what's going > >>on? > >>Thanks]. > >>__ > >>I was monitoring a machine with "systat -vmstat"

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 10:22, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: No responses from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone here understand what's going on? Thanks]. __ I was monitoring a machine with "systat -vmstat" and noticed something about the interrupts and I don't know if it's a problem or n

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 17 July 2006 10:22, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > No responses from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone here understand what's going on? > Thanks]. > __ > I was monitoring a machine with "systat -vmstat" and noticed something > about the interrupts and I don't know if it's a problem or not. If it > is a

[Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
No responses from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone here understand what's going on? Thanks]. __ I was monitoring a machine with "systat -vmstat" and noticed something about the interrupts and I don't know if it's a problem or not. If it is a problem, is there anything I can do about it? The interrupts