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

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