[Soekris] high CPU usage for network interrupts on 4801

[Jan Hoevers]

Mike Tancsa wrote on 16-9-2007 22:02:
> 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.
That would mean installing FreeBSD from scratch I guess (pfSense comes 
as a ready-to-use disk image).
Well, I already guessed it would come to that.

thanks -- Jan