On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Dennis wrote:
> With 1800 interfaces in the system Freebsd seems to use about 50Mhz of cpu
> when idle in "interrupts" even when there are no interrupts to process. on
> a 500Mhz box it uses 10% of the cpu and it seems linear with different
> speed processors.
I would suspect the interface list is stored as a linear list and doesn't
scale up to that level.
> It seems that there is substantial overhead just scanning interfaces for
> some routine maintenance...is there any hope of alleviating this deboggle?
Send patches to rewrite the interface list to use some other data
structure.
Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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