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Date:      Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:20:49 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        Eduardo Morras <nec556@retena.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?
Message-ID:  <4E29CD91.4090105@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110722190821.GA55040@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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On 7/22/2011 3:08 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> 
> Basically the same.  I don't think it's disk.

Are you able to saturate the ethernet ?  Try something like


/usr/src/tools/tools/netrate/netblast/netblast

on the local ethernet and see if you can generate and receive a full
gigabit on the wire

	---Mike

> 
> There's kern/152828 claiming a performance regression with em under
> 8.2, but I'm not sure if that is applicable to my system. I'd upgrade
> the kernel to test, but I'm not brave enough to downgrade the kernel
> to 8.0 for comparison. (I've never had good luck running an old kernel
> on a new userland.)
> 
> ==ml
> 


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