On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Alan Amesbury wrote:
Bruce Evans wrote:
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The (extremely busy) interface is exclusively incoming traffic, received
promiscuously. Since that's provided enough clues as to what this box
might actually be doing, I'll give away the secret: It's running snort.
:-)
I don
Bruce, thanks for taking time to read and reply. For brevity, I've
removed my own earlier writings, (usually) annotating what's missing.
Bruce Evans wrote:
[snip - PREEMPTION stuff]
> It's needed to prevent packet loss without polling. It probably makes
> little difference with polling (if the
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Alan Amesbury wrote:
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What I'm aiming for, of course, is zero packet loss. Realizing that's
probably impossible for this system given its load, I'm trying to do
what I can to minimize loss.
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* PREEMPTION disabled - /sys/conf/NOTES says this helps with
This is a long one, but mainly because I've tried to include notes about
what I've already looked at. Thanks in advance for taking the time to
read this.
I have a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE/amd64 system which routinely needs to
accept traffic at fairly high speeds. The system is accepting traffic
at fa
