From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 05:09:46 2005 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 238D716A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 05:09:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABBC543D2F for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 05:09:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from emanuel.strobl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2005 05:09:43 -0000 Received: from flb.schmalzbauer.de (EHLO cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de) [62.245.232.135] by mail.gmx.net (mp020) with SMTP; 23 Mar 2005 06:09:43 +0100 X-Authenticated: #301138 From: Emanuel Strobl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:08:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050323001948.72519.qmail@web90203.mail.scd.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050323001948.72519.qmail@web90203.mail.scd.yahoo.com> X-Birthday: 10/06/72 X-CelPhone: +49 173 9967781 X-Tel: +49 89 18947781 X-Country: Germany X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-OS: FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1168608.AJI6VFncQE"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200503230608.29147@harrymail> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: Boris Spirialitious Subject: Re: AMD64 very slow! 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: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 05:09:46 -0000 --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 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--