On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Lenny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > thanks for answering. > > a couple of questions: > > I'm gonna disable hyperthreading tomorrow, but tell me, should I do it in > BIOS and just boot it up,
All our older Intel machines had it disabled in BIOS. The Opterons obviously don't have such a setting :) FWIW, the older Xeons (about the same generation as yours I believe) maxed at around 80kpps (production load). > regarding your stats: > > I see that you have > > net.isr.directed: 0 > > does it help? should I do it too? For us it did. Again, this is FreeBSD 6.2, YMMV on 7.x > do you have anything related added to /boot/loader.conf or sysctl.conf > besides > > net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen: 5000 ? # cat /etc/sysctl.conf net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1 net.inet.carp.preempt=1 net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen=5000 No loader.conf settings. --Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
