intr process on freebsd

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 09:29:13AM +0000, Richard Kearsley wrote:

> Hmm, it's the Ethernet
>    12 root     -68    -     0K   288K WAIT    2   0:37  5.66% {irq256: bge0}
> 
> What could this mean?

With default settings it shows not only ethernet costs but also 
all incoming packet processing costs.  You may try setting 
net.isr.direct and net.isr.direct_force to 0 to see what actually 
takes cpu time, and playing with various network settings 
(including net.isr.*) to see if it would be possible to reduce 
load in your case.

Maxim Dounin