Re: Polling and em0

2006-09-18 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Eugene Kazarinov wrote: EK> > dell1# cat /dev/zero | dd bs=1m | nc dell2 3000 EK> > ^C0+18456 records in EK> > 0+18455 records out EK> > 1209466880 bytes transferred in 12.459299 secs (97,073,429 bytes/sec) EK> EK> EK> Do you meen that from 6.2 I dont need polling for fastes

Re: Polling and em0

2006-09-17 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Eugene Kazarinov wrote: Since 6.1 I have stopped using polling as a regular kernel seems to give good performance as compared to polling mode. In fact I used to get anything between 55-75megs/sec on 6.1 with regular cables but since upgraded to cat6 quality Ethernet cable

Re: Polling and em0

2006-09-17 Thread Eugene Kazarinov
Since 6.1 I have stopped using polling as a regular kernel seems to give good performance as compared to polling mode. In fact I used to get anything between 55-75megs/sec on 6.1 with regular cables but since upgraded to cat6 quality Ethernet cable I get practically full gigabit speed with no pol

Re: Polling and em0

2006-09-16 Thread Michael Vince
Bill Blue wrote: polling(4) says that supported devices include em(4) and that polling support is turned on and off with ifconfig's 'polling' option. But ifconfig doesn't seem to recognize that option either as a standalone request or with the initial em0 setup at boot. This is after a sour

Re: Polling and em0

2006-09-16 Thread Jiawei Ye
On 9/17/06, Bill Blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: polling(4) says that supported devices include em(4) and that polling support is turned on and off with ifconfig's 'polling' option. But ifconfig doesn't seem to recognize that option either as a standalone request or with the initial em0 setup