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Date:      Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:31:07 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Philipp Wuensche <cryx-freebsd@h3q.com>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-performance@freebsd.org" <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: tuning for high connection rates
Message-ID:  <47779D9B.7050402@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4756BDC1.2070802@h3q.com>
References:  <4755ED57.6030603@h3q.com>	<20071204195131.56cb1307.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>	<4755FAD8.5030805@h3q.com>	<d763ac660712041833m259e35f4kaf1d8aedade22760@mail.gmail.com> <4756BDC1.2070802@h3q.com>

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Philipp Wuensche wrote:
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> On 05/12/2007, Philipp Wuensche <cryx-freebsd@h3q.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As I understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong, polling helps against
>>> high interrupt rates but for that intel gigabit cards have interrupt
>>> moderation. We don't have a problem with interrupts (20% CPU) at the
>>> moment but with system (100% CPU) as you can see in the system
>>> monitoring graphs. Interrupts sometimes peak at, but usually are under,
>>> the 2k interrupts/sec limit.
>> Begin by reading up on the hardware profiling support (hwpmc, pmc,
>> etc) and see if you can get some system and process-specific profiling
>> information.
> 
> Oh interesting stuff, I definitely have to take a look into that. Nice.

Did you make progress on this?  I'd like to see a profiling trace from 
hwpmc, and also from LOCK_PROFILING.

Kris




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