bad gnome responsiveness with network load

[Joan Picanyol]

* Simon Barner <barner at in.tum.de> [20040524 12:47]:
> Hi,
> 
> > Summary: with /home NFS mounted at 10Mbit/s, network i/o
> > makes my sytem noticeably slower (as in GNOME interactivity). I'm running
> > RELENG_5_2, with SCHED_ULE and ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES. 
> 
> What NIC are you using? It sounds like your system is slowed down by
> vast interrupt stroms (use top an vmstat -i whether interrupts are a
> significatan component in your system load).

Mmmhh... It doesn't look like it. The irq19 rate remains constant, and
top doesn't show more than 3% cpu on intr.

xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x3080-0x30ff mem 0xd0101800-0xd010187f irq 19 at device 8.0 on pci2
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:81:27:cb:3b
miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0

514,p2,0$ vmstat -i | grep xl0
irq19: xl0 ohci0                  787787         13

Any other thoughts?

tks
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pica