From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 18:08:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6AF16A4E3; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:08:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from avscan2.sentex.ca (avscan2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFDB543D48; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:08:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.sentex.ca [127.0.0.1]) by avscan2.sentex.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i98I8KOu053015; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:08:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from avscan2.sentex.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (avscan2.sentex.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 52342-08; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:08:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by avscan2.sentex.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i98I8KMc052996; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:08:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i98I8Cjg025678; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:08:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.0.20041008125923.100dd108@64.7.153.2> X-Sender: mdtpop@64.7.153.2 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:14:26 -0400 To: David Gilbert From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <16742.48579.673252.78665@canoe.dclg.ca> References: <16742.40802.187425.402461@canoe.dclg.ca> <6.1.2.0.0.20041008120745.106ae7b0@64.7.153.2> <16742.48579.673252.78665@canoe.dclg.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at avscan2b cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 18:08:27 -0000 At 12:18 PM 08/10/2004, David Gilbert wrote: >Idle_poll is default 1, I'm not positive we tested 0. I don't think >there is much idle time here. Actually, on RELENG_5, I think the default is now zero. With a releng_5 BETA7 box in between 2 other hosts, with idle_poll set to the default on zero, using /usr/local/netperf/netperf -l 30 -H 10.10.10.1 -i 10,2 -I 99,10 -t UDP_STREAM -- -m 1000 -s 32768 32768 I see about 483Mb. If I set it to 1, I get just over 500Mb. This was with an HZ of 1000 ---Mike