[Soekris] high CPU usage for network interrupts on 4801

[Mike Tancsa]

At 03:11 PM 9/16/2007, Jan Hoevers wrote:
>I'm using a Soekris net4801-60 as a router, with a lan1641 in the PCI
>slot, giving me 7 ethernet ports. I'm running pfSense 1.0.1, a routing
>package based on FreeBSD 6.1 and PF. For quite some time everyting was
>running file.

Not sure about the 4801 specifically, but I noticed I got a bit of a 
performance boost on my 5501 by going to RELENG_6.  I was able to 
live lock the box with 100Mb of traffic using 800byte packets before. 
It now is able to push 500 byte packets at 100Mb, so there seems to 
be some network efficiency gained from the RELENG_6 I  was using 
before (july 2007).   The vr driver had not changed in that period so 
its not that.


         ---Mike