dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

[Ferdinand Goldmann]

Kevin Day wrote:
> In one case, we had a system acting as a router. It was a Dell PowerEdge 
> 2650, with two dual "server" adapters. each were on separate PCI busses. 
> 3 were "lan" links, and one was a "wan" link. The lan links were 
> receiving about 300mbps each, all going out the "wan" link at near 
> 900mbps at peak. We were never able to get above 944mbps, but I never 
> cared enough to figure out where the bottleneck was there.


Forgot to ask - do you have fastforwarding enabled in your sysctl?

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