From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 07:31:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C764106566B for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:31:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from outbound0.mx.meer.net (outbound0.mx.meer.net [209.157.153.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F5A8FC23 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:31:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from mail.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) by outbound0.mx.meer.net (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id m3G7V0i6022029; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from mail2.meer.net (mail2.meer.net [64.13.141.16]) by mail.meer.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/meer) with ESMTP id m3G7UPY0025461; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from minion.local.neville-neil.com (61.204.211.246.customerlink.pwd.ne.jp [61.204.211.246]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail2.meer.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m3G7UOY8078265; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:30:23 +0900 Message-ID: From: gnn@freebsd.org To: Aristedes Maniatis In-Reply-To: <15A6FBF6-052E-486D-9470-CAE5819BE93F@ish.com.au> References: <5873E91C-C096-4EE1-A5F5-4BCE110E2EE7@ish.com.au> <15A6FBF6-052E-486D-9470-CAE5819BE93F@ish.com.au> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.5 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.1.50 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10GbE speeds X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:31:06 -0000 At Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:02:33 +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > > > On 15/04/2008, at 10:54 PM, gnn@freebsd.org wrote: > > I am working with the Chelsio hardware and it seems to be well > > supported on FreeBSD. All the machines in that system are FreeBSD > > though. How do you intend to get the OSX systems to be 10GE? > > > What sort of throughput are you getting with that setup? Are you using > NFS between the systems? I haven't done any performance testing of bandwidth as yet and we are not using these for NFS. > Good question about OSX, and I hadn't got to that part yet :-) But I > was hoping that some OSX drivers existed. My fail back plan is to > put 3 x 1GbE NICs into the server and just use crossover cable > between the 3 workstations and the server to avoid any contention > within the ethernet network. I think you want either a pure 10GbE network or a pure 1GbE network because my understanding is that 10GbE switches have issues with mixed links. I have not tested that first hand yet though. Best, George