Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 13:10:02 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Mihai Tanasescu <mihai@duras.ro> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [fbsd] Re: Device polling heavy traffic Message-ID: <20060107121002.GQ90495@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <43B0F32E.7070905@duras.ro> References: <43B05F1E.3060908@duras.ro> <43B095C7.4090000@rogers.com> <43B0F32E.7070905@duras.ro>
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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 >
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