Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:22:25 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sten_Daniel_S=F8rsdal?= <sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no> To: "Adrian Penisoara" <ady@freebsd.ady.ro>, <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Handling 100.000 packets/sec or more Message-ID: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F5D9760@exchange.wanglobal.net>
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>=20 > What can I do to make the system better handle this kind of=20 > traffic ? > Could device polling(8) or just increasing the kernel=20 > frequency clock to 1000Hz or more improve the situation ? > What kind of network cards could face a lot better this=20 > burden ? Are there any other solutions ? >=20 device polling(8) really does help _alot_ for packet floods/storms. for device polling to work properly (imho) you would need to set HZ to = 1000. I dont recommend any higher HZ on a PIII. I recommend Intel cards (fxp or em) because they chew through packets at = the highest rate (in our tests) given good supporting hardware and tuned = software. Both support device polling.
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