From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 16 07:14:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B0B16A401 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:14:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oxy@field.hu) Received: from green.field.hu (green.field.hu [217.20.130.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072E043D45 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:14:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oxy@field.hu) Received: from localhost (green.field.hu [217.20.130.28]) by green.field.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E34119CD0; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:14:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from green.field.hu ([217.20.130.28]) by localhost (green.field.hu [217.20.130.28]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 77842-03; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:14:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from oxy (dsl217-197-187-71.pool.tvnet.hu [217.197.187.71]) by green.field.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E96D119CA5; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:14:17 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <000601c648c9$459ef6f0$0201a8c0@oxy> From: "OxY" To: References: <000a01c64848$41d6f710$0201a8c0@oxy> <000401c64873$0f4273d0$0201a8c0@oxy> <20060316003924.GB56829@cdnetworks.co.kr> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:14:31 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-new (Spamassassin+Razor2+Pyzor+DCC+Bayes db, Clamd Antivirus) at field.hu Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with Marwell gigabit performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:14:34 -0000 iperf is an authentic benchmark, it says 6945/163914 (4.2%) packet loss, when transfering 200MB data, the system is 80% idle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pyun YongHyeon" To: "OxY" Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 1:39 AM Subject: Re: problem with Marwell gigabit performance > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:57:23PM +0100, OxY wrote: > > after further testing and transferred for a couple hours i realized that > > the performance is ok, not changed dramatically > > (the server was slow when i measured 9mb/s..) > > but the load! > > when i used ftp before the load increased to ~2.0, but > > now it's 4.5! changed back to the original driver and got 2.0 again.. > > would you guys give me an advice what to buy? 3com or intel? > > (i heard em(4) driver is not too good..) > > thx! > > > > I think you may not get correct test result when other system activity > such as disk I/Os is in progress. Just stick to check pure network > performance. For ftp, you can request "/dev/zero" from ftp server > and save it as "/dev/null" on client in order to avoid disk I/Os. > Also check the following URL. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/testing.html > > -- > Regards, > Pyun YongHyeon