Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:08:15 +0100 From: Emanuel Strobl <emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Boris Spirialitious <hardcodeharry@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: AMD64 very slow! Message-ID: <200503230608.29147@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <20050323001948.72519.qmail@web90203.mail.scd.yahoo.com> References: <20050323001948.72519.qmail@web90203.mail.scd.yahoo.com>
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--nextPart1168608.AJI6VFncQE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Mittwoch, 23. M=E4rz 2005 01:19 schrieb Boris Spirialitious: > -- Emanuel Strobl <emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. M=E4rz 2005 00:38 schrieb Boris > > > Spirialitious: > > > I have opteron 246 system with 2 port intel em > > > card. We have test bed with about 200Kbs traffic > > > and we route through 5.3/i386 system. Load is > > > about 50%. With same settings, amd64 system run > > > with 85% load. How could be so slow? What tuning > > > extra is needed for amd64 kernels? > > > > 200kB/s sounds like misconfigured duplex/negotiation > > mode. > > But why don't you try FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1? Many > > performance improvements were > > achieved and stability is given in the -STABLE > > branch (BETA1 is a relese of > > FreeBSD 5-STABLE) > > I am sorry, I mean 200Mb/s. It is a controlled stream Unfortunately that's a not so uncommon result with em and 5.3. There are=20 tuning methods but they won't give the big kick. Like mentioned, try 5.4 (BETA1), depending on your employment you'll see=20 tremendous improvement, I don't have values handy nor can I confirm that fo= r=20 amd64, but you really wnat to try out, especially if this box isn't=20 productive yet, which it isn't if I understood correctly. =2DHarry > > Boris > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --nextPart1168608.AJI6VFncQE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCQPnMBylq0S4AzzwRAoGYAJ0RWbF5qCll+vGgDgW5EztdyXzm/wCghzrn vW11EqNhH7ldff2Pk1vuB3w= =soO1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1168608.AJI6VFncQE--
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