On 26 Sep 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > What device is used for networking? > > 100Mbit/s on most regular NICs and drivers will kill the system because > of interrupt livelock. You *might* benefit alot from using the NAPI
I said 50Mbit/s in + 50Mbit/s out at peaks, 20Mbit/s in 20Mbit/s out average. > I have no idea if this has something to do with the situation your > experiencing, but if you do see a really huge numbers of interrupts > (/proc/interrupts) during high network loads this might be a good idea > in any case and will decrease the load of the system. Would this count as huge ? 17: 186608169 186641281 IO-APIC-level eth1 7:47pm up 1 day, 28 min, 5 users, load average: 0.23, 0.82, 1.25 If I count it right, this is: 186608169/86428 int/sec per cpu, that is 2159 int/second. --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
