Re: [nsp] VIP card CPU and Memory usage

From: Martin Cooper (mjc@cooper.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 10:33:08 EST


Martin, Christian <cmartin@gnilink.net> writes:

> High CPU at the scheduled process level may indicate
> CEF table thrashing, or some other anomoly.

The way I'd understood this to work was that it is
100% processor usage, caused by repeatedly polling
for receive-side queued packets, but with a lowish
priority so that the scheduler can still interrupt
that process when other processes demand CPU time.

M.



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