From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 19 06:27:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5EC16A4BF for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 06:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99BF443F85 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 06:27:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (dhcp-181.centtech.com [204.177.173.181]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h7JDRnob045523; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:27:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3F4225B9.7060005@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:27:21 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Evans References: <20030628190036.0E06B37B405@hub.freebsd.org> <000f01c33dad$1595a0f0$e602a8c0@flatline> <16126.9805.829406.368426@canoe.velocet.net> <000901c33dd1$12268780$0200000a@fireball> <16126.19861.842507.318997@canoe.velocet.net> <001f01c33e0f$1f4716d0$0200000a@fireball> <16127.2826.306427.946086@canoe.velocet.net> <3EFFC3D5.7070605@mullet.se> <3F003092.30405@centtech.com> <16128.42007.75314.462685@canoe.velocet.net> <3F043F3A.1030907@centtech.com> <16132.36223.175148.275860@canoe.velocet.net> <20030813142615.084b383d.nevans@talkpoint.com> In-Reply-To: <20030813142615.084b383d.nevans@talkpoint.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuning Gigabit X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:27:51 -0000 Nick Evans wrote: > I'm currently forwarding 700 megabits (1500 byte packets, netperf > generated) , ~95K pps, with 254 ipfilter rules. The system is running > at ~30% idle. I'm also running freevrrpd so the two units I have are > fault tolerant with a 3 second failover time. Still tuning, more to > come later. > > Nick Could you send your tweaks to the list please? I'm sure we'd all like to get a look at what you've done.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------