Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:51:27 -0700 From: "Nick Pavlica" <linicks@gmail.com> To: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Subject: Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch Message-ID: <dc9ba0440611292151qad92eaal129f11142d50b1db@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200611272154.kARLsMC7029800@lava.sentex.ca> References: <4557CECD.2000609@samsco.org> <200611132054.kADKsFvK045726@lava.sentex.ca> <4558E3DC.6080800@samsco.org> <200611200454.kAK4sdat083568@lava.sentex.ca> <7.1.0.9.0.20061120160757.14d4a728@sentex.net> <200611220247.kAM2l9JP095066@lava.sentex.ca> <20061122130947.GM20405@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200611231652.kANGqJsr005016@lava.sentex.ca> <dc9ba0440611251112h52ec543av6f54166fea0a05ff@mail.gmail.com> <200611272154.kARLsMC7029800@lava.sentex.ca>
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On 11/27/06, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote: > At 02:12 PM 11/25/2006, Nick Pavlica wrote: > >>I might give OpenBSD a quick try as a reference. > > > >Mike, > > Have you done any testing on Solaris 10, or OpenSolaris? I > >understand that it has a very robust IP stack. It would be > > Did a quick default install. Results are not so interesting since one > stream livelocks the box. Basic stats at http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html > > If there are some OpenSolaris wizards out there who want me to tune, > I am happy to retest... > > ---Mike Mike, I'm not an OpenSolaris/Solaris expert, but was curious which build you were testing with. I have noticed various results with my testing depending on which build I was using. I have done most of my testing/learning on Solaris 10 06/06, and have played with Solaris Express B50 with good results. I did see some quirks in SolarisExpress CE or B52 at the time of this writing. Of course I patched all of these boxes before I did my testing which was mostly centered around disk I/O performance on UFS and ZFS, and some experimentation with Zones/Containers. I'm surprised that the console locked up during your tests. My limited experience with Solaris 10+ thus far has been positive in terms of performance and stability. When I have stressed my test systems, they remained responsive and seemed to have better performance than FC6 and Ubuntu6.10 when copying large files across my network. Thanks for digging in with this testing, I hope you keep at it. --Nick
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