dummynet dropping too many packets

[rihad]

Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:07:18PM +0500, rihad wrote:
> 
>>> What is CPU load in when the load is maximum?
>>>
>> It has 2 quad-cores, so I'm not sure. Here's the output of top -S:
> 
> There is a rumour about FreeBSD's shedulers...
> That they are not so good for 8 cores and that you may get MORE speed
> by disabling 4 cores if it's possible for your system.
> Or even using uniprocessor kernel.
> 
> Only rumour, though :-)
> 
I'd really like to try this as the last option ;-)


It's 21:07 where I live, and we're again wasting 9-10 mbit/s w/ 4k users 
online.

systat -ifstat:



            bce1  in      0.000 Mb/s          0.003 Mb/s           49.004 MB
                  out   470.102 Mb/s        470.102 Mb/s           22.637 TB

            bce0  in    479.754 Mb/s        479.754 Mb/s           22.858 TB
                  out     0.148 Mb/s          0.207 Mb/s            6.950 GB