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Subject: State of interface polling in FreeBSD
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I'm building a FreeBSD router based on a small, Intel Atom-based 
board and am trying to decide whether or not to configure the 
kernel for polling. What's the current state of interface polling 
in FreeBSD? Is it worth doing with a single CPU, or will it 
actually increase system overhead? What "HZ" settings are recommended?

--Brett Glass