From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 03:57:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 AE4B016A41F for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 03:57:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from annkok2001@yahoo.com) Received: from web53305.mail.yahoo.com (web53305.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.49.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3234443D45 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 03:57:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from annkok2001@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 15468 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Jan 2006 03:57:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ihUOjqnD0fpVRNO+vjDCPvz4Z5GZpAZpLbpvmvVVgfVO5IN/FytXarnL8D7syN3U9JFiiBe3jlFBTf5XaD3koeSRb3qX9hqAwkzViE5BIANilYoM81FGwyGkA95F9zJqeIP2NiHfdlFOj71t+/b28cSmnxjxfTqnUqx83eOfDNM= ; Message-ID: <20060107035710.15466.qmail@web53305.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [165.154.26.85] by web53305.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:57:10 PST Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:57:10 -0800 (PST) From: ann kok To: "Andrew P." In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pls help network thoughput X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 03:57:11 -0000 Dear Andrew Thank you for your help in advance I keep checking the loading. it is running fine. the load averages is not over to 1.0 System info: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz 2G memory for the sysctl var: kern.polling.enable=1 kern.polling.user_frac=10 kern.ipc.somaxconn=2048 kern.polling.poll_in_trap=1 I don't run iperf and my switch is not managable. could you provide any hints to check it? and tune the system also. Thank you again last pid: 47008; load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.02 up 80+11:09:17 22:42:18 31 processes: 1 running, 30 sleeping CPU states: % user, % nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle Mem: 100M Active, 1639M Inact, 201M Wired, 60M Cache, 199M Buf, 11M Free --- "Andrew P." wrote: > On 1/7/06, ann kok wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I use feebsd 4.11 as router with intel Giga card > about > > 1 year > > > > Recently, the bandwidth couldn't grow and stop to > > about 383M. ls it the maximum thoughtput of the > > freebsd? > > Yes, FreeBSD has quite a few limits hardcoded which > gives other OSes a chance to look decent in various > tests and benchmarks. > > Anyway, please provide additional details. CPU > load one of the most important factors here. > According > to some people, polling makes it show incorrect > (lower) > values. Can you run iperf with different switches? > Can > you try and tweak polling-related sysctl variables? > __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com