From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 14 23:18:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B2F16A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:18:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tigra.ip.net.ua (tigra.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B6E043D31 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:18:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from heffalump.ip.net.ua (heffalump.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.213]) by tigra.ip.net.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i3F6NtCk084214 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:23:56 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by heffalump.ip.net.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i3F6InWe004721; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:18:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:18:49 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Putinas Piliponis Message-ID: <20040415061849.GG4415@ip.net.ua> References: <000d01c4200e$d38a1750$0464a8c0@spotripoli.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UTZ8bGhNySVQ9LYl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000d01c4200e$d38a1750$0464a8c0@spotripoli.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel.polling and load average X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 06:18:53 -0000 --UTZ8bGhNySVQ9LYl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:49:12PM +0200, Putinas Piliponis wrote: > Hi all, > I have kernel with compiled in polling, > and sysctl kern.polling.enable=3D1 kicks=20 > load average to stable 1.00 > I think I never observe same behavior, > is it meant to be like this or here is something wrong ? >=20 Do you also have kern.polling.idle_poll enabled? > my system is 5.2.1 and I don't have any device > which man polling says it supports. >=20 Then it's probably best to turn it off on your system, as it just wastes your CPU's cycles. The actual number of devices registered for polling is available in the kern.polling.handlers sysctl. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --UTZ8bGhNySVQ9LYl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAfilJUkv4P6juNwoRAmbdAJ94dvULWO07gMLfygTvHsPiZLLEQwCaA/Af ewu0V5qif/nnrzHSCoX1r1k= =r2lm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UTZ8bGhNySVQ9LYl--