Hello,
We use FreeBSD as sniffer (libpcap programs) and we experience
performance problems when incoming traffic is greater than 7.5Gbps/s.
If we check 'top' we see that first irq from network card is using
100% CPU. I've tested this on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE
(on 9.0 we can see also
There may be some interrupt handling changes coming, but at least for
the moment you need to increase the storm threshold, or set it to 0 to
disable it.
Jack
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Marcin Markowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We use FreeBSD as sniffer (libpcap programs) and we experience
>
Hi Jack,
Thank You for Your answer.
I forgot to mention that if the program will run for more than 30-40
sec.
server loses connection to the internet. I'm not sure if problem isnt
with MSI-X, because NIC (82575EB - igb driver) used for the internet is
also
using MSI-X. Disabling MSI-X for i
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On Monday, January 23, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Marcin Markowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We use FreeBSD as sniffer (libpcap programs) and we experience
> performance problems when incoming traffic is greater than 7.5Gbps/s.
> If we check 'top' we see that first irq