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Date:      Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:52:00 +0200
From:      Markus Oestreicher <m.oe@x-trader.de>
To:        Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: more interrupts with polling(4) on em(4)
Message-ID:  <46AA7710.2070803@x-trader.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070727115520.GA10957@harmless.hu>
References:  <20070727115520.GA10957@harmless.hu>

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Gergely CZUCZY schrieb:
> Good morning,
> 
> I've noticed 33K interrupts/sec on an em(4) gigabit interface on
> a box. This many interrupts seemed a bit too high, so I thought
> I should enable polling(4). After enabling it i've got 55K per
> second, even higher.
> 
> I've just done "ifconfig em1 polling", and by this the number
> of interrupts increased.


How does vmstat -i look like before and after?

Markus



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