> -----Original Message----- > From: Alex de Kruijff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:20 AM > To: Yaraghchi, Stephan > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: DEVICE_POLLING in 5.3 > > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:27:22PM +0200, Yaraghchi, Stephan wrote: > > Hi fellows, > > > > I'm trying to tune network performance of a 5.3-BETA5 box > > by compiling the DEVICE_POLLING and HZ=1000 options into > > the kernel. Compilation went fine. > > I found the usual warning in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_poll.c > > concerning device polling in SMP kernels and removed it. > > > > To finally enable the feature one have to set the sysctl > > kern.polling.enable to value '1'. > > > > The only problem is that 5.3-BETA5 doesn't know about it: > > > > sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.polling.enable' > > > > Any advice is highly appreciated. > > Hi, > > Did you do a full make buildworld/kernel installkernel/world? If not > then this might be why sysctl doesn't know about it. If so then maybe > someone from current@ might know more about it. (maybe there read this > list to) > > Does /usr/src/UPDATING say anything about it? > > -- > Alex > > Articles based on solutions that I use: > http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ >
Hi Alex, IMO it's not necessary since the changes only affect the kernel which I already recompiled. Nevertheless I also did a 'make buildworld' as you suggested: no luck. /usr/src/UPDATING says nothing about the issue. Stephan. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"