Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > Hi again > > I moved from PCI Realtek 8169 to onboard PCI-Express e1000e, and situation > become worse. Strange? Yes. > > Here is info > Load and error rate: > > MegaRouter-KARAM /sys # ifconfig eth1;sleep 10;ifconfig eth1 > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:D1:71:5F:33 > inet addr:192.168.20.10 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:91991642 errors:0 dropped:1803444 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:91914611 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:316112765 (301.4 MiB) TX bytes:138303107 (131.8 MiB) > Memory:90300000-90320000 > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:D1:71:5F:33 > inet addr:192.168.20.10 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:92812514 errors:0 dropped:1815490 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:92734865 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:739941322 (705.6 MiB) TX bytes:560547138 (534.5 MiB) > Memory:90300000-90320000 > > System load (there is no NAT, no shapers, just routing, around 600-700 > routes): > MegaRouter-KARAM /sys # mpstat 1 > Linux 2.6.26-rc6-git2-build-0029 (MegaRouter-KARAM) 06/16/08 > > 22:36:36 CPU %user %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal > %idle intr/s > 22:36:37 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.49 0.00 > 98.51 19764.00 > 22:36:38 all 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.00 > 99.01 19888.00 > 22:36:39 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.00 > 99.50 19642.00 > 22:36:40 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.01 9.05 0.00 > 89.95 19543.00 > > (system almost idle)
but has 20000 interrupts per second! that's hardly idle by any account :) what options did use to load e1000e? can you show the relevant dmesg parts? post contents of /proc/interrupts? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel