6-Stable High Interrupt Rate on network

[Dominic Marks]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:57:22 -0300
"Alexandre Biancalana" <biancalana at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
>    Today I changed the main gateway from our network from PIII 733, 512 MB
> Ram running FreeBSD 4-STABLE to a Xeon 3.0, 1Gb Ram running FreeBSD
> 6-STABLE. But the performance of the network is worst than before.

How are you measuring the performance?

>   The new machine is a Dell PowerEdge 1800 have one quad DLink DFE-580TX,
> one quad Adaptec ANA-62044 and one on board Intel em. I enabled the polling
> on all interfaces, set the HZ to 1000 and set kern.polling.user_frac=30, but
> this does not happened.

What else is the machine doing, firewall, nat, traffic
shaping, proxy?

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Dominic