From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 12:10:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C70F16A420 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:10:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (smtp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 977A143D46 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:10:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (vol75-8-82-233-239-98.fbx.proxad.net [82.233.239.98]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CD743FCB; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 13:09:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (unknown [192.168.1.25]) by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C859B85C; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:10:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 46082405B; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 13:10:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 13:10:02 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Mihai Tanasescu Message-ID: <20060107121002.GQ90495@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <43B05F1E.3060908@duras.ro> <43B095C7.4090000@rogers.com> <43B0F32E.7070905@duras.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43B0F32E.7070905@duras.ro> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Mike Jakubik , freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [fbsd] Re: Device polling heavy traffic X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:10:02 -0000 Hi, > I wasn't there when the panic happened, I just noticed the load average > was increasing (with polling disabled); and it kept increasing until the > machine become unresponsive. After 1-2 minutes I observed it had > rebooted itself. > > Now I have polling enabled on it, I have kernel.idle.poll set and a > latency of 1-5 ms inside the local network. > But on the 3 links I have spoken of, altough they are not full I have > between 1-5 ms and 20-30 ms (when the number of packets passive through > the machine increases). It would be worth having a kernel dump. The steps to achieve this are well described in these articles : % http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html % http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >