Re: Maximum NIC interrupts

2007-12-26 Thread Jack Vogel
On Dec 26, 2007 8:10 AM, Nash Nipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Jordi, > > In theory, on a Gigabit link you get 1 000 000 000 bits * second. > By default you have the MTU set to 1500 bytes which makes ~12 000 bits. > 1 000 000 000 / 12 000 = ~ 83 333 packets per second. > 83 333 packets per

Re: Maximum NIC interrupts

2007-12-26 Thread Nash Nipples
26, 2007 12:12:55 PM Subject: Re: Maximum NIC interrupts OK, I'll try to explain in another way. While I've done network performance test I've monitored the IRQ rate, and, for example, it's a 7000/8000 interrupts per second in every NIC (I use 2 NICs in a bridge). The quest

Re: Maximum NIC interrupts

2007-12-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: I want to say that I'm don't know if 8000 irq per second means a high IRQ use or a lower user. I must say, that I did not do hardware since some time. But 10 000 Interrupts per second is not this high. Modern CPUs should be able to handle much much more. S

Re: Maximum NIC interrupts

2007-12-26 Thread Michael DeMan
Hi, I think this is a really good question. I'm curious since we use a lot of stripped-down FreeBSD for modest performance routers. We typically enabling our interfaces with POLLING not so much for performance (it seems to be a negligible improvement nowadays) but so that we know that ou

Re: Maximum NIC interrupts

2007-12-26 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
OK, I'll try to explain in another way. While I've done network performance test I've monitored the IRQ rate, and, for example, it's a 7000/8000 interrupts per second in every NIC (I use 2 NICs in a bridge). The question is ¿how can I know if this irq rate is too high or not? ¿how can I know

Re: Maximum NIC interrupts

2007-12-26 Thread Jack Vogel
On Dec 25, 2007 4:21 AM, Jordi Espasa Clofent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I know how to monitoring the NIC IRQ's consume, with tools as vmstat (-i > flag), systat (-vm 1) or netstat (-m, -i), but I don't know how to > determine the maximum interrupts that these NICs can give. > > I've