Hello all, Last night, I set up a new pfSense box running on what is either a Pentium Dual-Core or a Core 2 Duo (different software check identify it differently, for some reason) with a dual-port Intel (em) card.
I was monitoring it, and I found that the CPU usage (percentage) never went below 50%, and the load average never dropped below 1. This was true even when very little traffic was coming through. I looked around a bot and found that a very large number of interrupts were coming in from hpet0. Based on http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-June/068126.html, I set the system timer to LAPIC, and the load now looks much more like what I expect it to be. My question is two-fold: 1. Has anyone else seen this behavior? 2. I haven't noticed any performance issues after the switch, but is there anything that I need to be concerned about? Thanks, Moshe -- Moshe Katz -- [email protected] -- +1(301)867-3732
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