From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 13:08:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44DA106564A for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:08:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from outbound0.mx.meer.net (outbound0.mx.meer.net [209.157.153.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C68DD8FC2D for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:08:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from mail.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) by outbound0.mx.meer.net (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id m3FCtmi8091729; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:55:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from mail2.meer.net (mail2.meer.net [64.13.141.16]) by mail.meer.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/meer) with ESMTP id m3FCsqW6097238; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:54:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from minion.local.neville-neil.com (61.204.211.246.customerlink.pwd.ne.jp [61.204.211.246]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail2.meer.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m3FCspKP023287; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:54:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:54:49 +0900 Message-ID: From: gnn@freebsd.org To: Aristedes Maniatis In-Reply-To: <5873E91C-C096-4EE1-A5F5-4BCE110E2EE7@ish.com.au> References: <5873E91C-C096-4EE1-A5F5-4BCE110E2EE7@ish.com.au> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.5 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.1.50 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10GbE speeds X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:08:48 -0000 At Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:08:13 +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > > I have a project with 3 workstations all needing high speed access to > about 6Tb of storage. In the past I've installed technology such as > fibre channel connected SAN storage (using Apple's xsan) for up to a > dozen workstations, but with only three workstations for this project > I'm thinking about 10GbE. The workstations will be OSX and the server > FreeBSD 7 with a bunch of disks in a RAID 5 or RAID 10 configuration. > > Are 10GbE NICs and drivers significantly mature enough under FreeBSD > to accomplish this? I'd need to achieve about 60MB/s transfer rate > which is theoretically quite doable, as long as the drive array can > keep up with three streams of that speed. I'd use netatalk, samba or > nfs to share files depending on which I can eek the best speeds out of. > > Alternatively I could populate the server with 1GbE NICs, one per > workstation and use cross over cable. That way there is absolutely no > contention on the network. > > Any thoughts about the viability of this? Is 10GbE in production use > with FreeBSD and does it scale well? I am working with the Chelsio hardware and it seems to be well supported on FreeBSD. All the machines in that system are FreeBSD though. How do you intend to get the OSX systems to be 10GE? Best, George