[fbsd] Re: Device polling heavy traffic
Jeremie Le Hen
jeremie at le-hen.org
Sat Jan 7 04:10:02 PST 2006
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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