From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 3 06:27:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E599D16A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 06:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975FC43D5D for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 06:27:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B9AB69A71; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 09:27:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 09:27:32 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: hugle Message-Id: <20040603092732.3d1630fe.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3838112963.20040603111207@vkt.lt> References: <8935715836.20040531193600@vkt.lt> <20040531142628.E90411-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <553059104.20040601002503@vkt.lt> <40BBBDC9.8090807@potentialtech.com> <17388683440.20040601101847@vkt.lt> <40BC8099.4050007@potentialtech.com> <188538784.20040601165436@vkt.lt> <40BCA063.2010007@potentialtech.com> <3838112963.20040603111207@vkt.lt> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:27:35 -0000 hugle wrote: > >> now the main problem is.. that machine is shaping internet, right? > >> I did shaping for my subnet, so users in /24 have 100kbits everybody. > >> But they don't get such speed, they get about 70-80kbps . and if I > >> try to skipt pipe rules for certain IPs, users get all available > >> speed (which is left), it's about 500kbps.. > >> so why machine can't pipe it normally ? > >> Didn't had these problems in the past... > > BM> Past when? What changed? > > BM> Typically, only ~80% of available bandwidth is usable. I don't know if > BM> that applies to your situation, though, as that's usually referring to > BM> ethernet, and you claim the problem hasn't always been there. > > BM> Try polling and see if the load reduces and the performance increases. > BM> If all that machine is doing is routing, you can configure it to be > BM> dedicated to routing. > > Hello all:) > I'm here again.. > so. I've purchased 3com nic, it recognises it as: bge0. > Situation went a bit better.. (in first hours on last nics i had ~50% > interrupt and here I had 30%) But after some time.. interrupts went up I didn't expect it to change significantly. > COmpiled in polling support > But after enabling polling I don't see any changes.. > Maybe bge NIC'a don't support pooling ? The man page for polling does not list the bge driver as supported, and the bge man page says nothing about polling that I can find. However, the fxp driver (for the Intel NIC) _does_ support polling. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com