From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 23 06:47:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FD716A419 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:47:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA28F13C4B0 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:47:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so1446764wxd for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:47:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pxjy71cvZY4Q4huOP0jE5sYqIY78/zJhfypVxQMPO3U=; b=PaBYPaDoJ7YocRefPB7Z6P+N6bf01DobxrYMQR2Se85+OOvOqRBRNHkvYucjzGxemtrrN5Etg2NrHu+pUgbdZQBjDUjhsXnBRz/UKaUWjtjALKDRWg/QIKe/Y4CJLOAhdtchI00hqNG99GLm6k45Hdj7Inc1ovxpJ68RUcbGUnA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bH9XHOr9+IK2cz20QjGylHqQrxgJYmaQsd14+d8oESNbNAJLvdHMXTpF1PYsVcwNzDilqWUv54ARGkuDk3T6I92tjAt9XvLRpcCIWeT15j0ZNTOsOKx65XqncG++QM2A9TikYtDTygUurWMZhv/T6+QWUng3TE3+F+hnwnDynC4= Received: by 10.90.99.20 with SMTP id w20mr344406agb.1193121622065; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.2? ( [67.85.89.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n26sm8420052ele.2007.10.22.23.40.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <471D9658.4060005@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:36:08 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071016) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: an interesting observation on network performence X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:47:24 -0000 I get better network performance on XP running under qemu on 8-current. (sorry don't have hard numbers but it roughly times better on p2p apps). Here is the config: Host OS: 8-current amd64 4gb ram bridge0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 62:4e:c7:60:d0:a0 id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200 root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0 member: tap0 flags=143 member: re0 flags=143 tap0: flags=8943 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:bd:43:f2:02:00 inet6 fe80::2bd:43ff:fef2:200%tap0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 Opened by PID 14839 sudo qemu -net nic -net tap -hda test -localtime -m 1024 -soundhw all Host p2p program: deluge (latest) Guest OS: XP Pro SP2 (all updates as of 1/1/2007) Guest p2p program: uTorrent 1.7