xl(4) & polling
Subhro
subhro.kar at gmail.com
Wed May 11 00:47:08 PDT 2005
On 5/11/2005 13:13, Rob wrote:
>--- Subhro <subhro.kar at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 5/11/2005 8:04, Rob wrote:
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>>>All computers are running 5-Stable, as of May 10.
>>>All, but PC1 with fxp, use polling, with:
>>> options DEVICE_POLLING
>>> options HZ=1000
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>1000 IMHO seems a bit too heavy. Try something
>>lower.
>>
>>
>
>Same problem. Ssh-tunnel connection is also disrupted
>with HZ=100. May I conclude that the HZ value is not
>the culprit? Or should I try once again with HZ=10?
>
>
100 should be fine. 10 would be a bit too much overkill.
>kern.ipc.nmbclusters is 4928 for this PC.
>Is that good or bad?
>
>
What is the purpose of the box? Give a description of the network traffic.
>"sysctl -a | grep -i polling" gives following:
>kern.polling.burst: 150
>kern.polling.each_burst: 5
>kern.polling.burst_max: 150
>kern.polling.idle_poll: 0
>kern.polling.poll_in_trap: 0
>kern.polling.user_frac: 50
>kern.polling.reg_frac: 20
>kern.polling.short_ticks: 0
>kern.polling.lost_polls: 6
>kern.polling.pending_polls: 0
>kern.polling.residual_burst: 0
>kern.polling.handlers: 0
>kern.polling.enable: 0
>kern.polling.phase: 0
>kern.polling.suspect: 6
>kern.polling.stalled: 0
>kern.polling.idlepoll_sleeping: 1
><118>kern.polling.enable:
><118>xl0: flags=18843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,
> MULTICAST,POLLING> mtu 1500
><118> options=49<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,POLLING>
><118>xl1: flags=18843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,
> MULTICAST,POLLING> mtu 1500
><118> options=49<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,POLLING>
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Did you use any strange CFLAGS like -O3 or -f* compile time options when
you built the system?
Regards
S.
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