From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 14:24:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C11237B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [216.138.209.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E4543FE5 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:24:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@velocet.ca) Received: from trooper.velocet.ca (trooper.velocet.net [216.138.242.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B8F1383B5; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:24:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by trooper.velocet.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 1973474C27; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:24:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by canoe.velocet.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id 689714AD2; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:24:52 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16128.43684.374770.746318@canoe.velocet.net> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:24:52 -0400 To: Martin Nilsson In-Reply-To: <3EFFC3D5.7070605@mullet.se> References: <20030628190036.0E06B37B405@hub.freebsd.org> <000f01c33dad$1595a0f0$e602a8c0@flatline> <16126.9805.829406.368426@canoe.velocet.net> <000901c33dd1$12268780$0200000a@fireball> <16126.19861.842507.318997@canoe.velocet.net> <001f01c33e0f$1f4716d0$0200000a@fireball> <16127.2826.306427.946086@canoe.velocet.net> <3EFFC3D5.7070605@mullet.se> X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under 21.4 (patch 12) "Portable Code" XEmacs Lucid cc: David Gilbert cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuning Gigabit X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:24:58 -0000 >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Nilsson writes: Martin> David Gilbert wrote: >> Well... I don't have any disk controllers to test, but I've >> verified this behaviour with em, bge, sk, and nge chipsets. Of >> these, as I've said before, the em shines. Martin> I have made some simple speed testing of gigabit NICs too. My Martin> results are that Linux 2.4.18+ is usually faster and have much Martin> lower CPU load than FreeBSD 4.8. I have tested the following Martin> NIC:s em (1000/XT,Anvik), nge(32/33), bge (Altima 1002), ti Martin> (Netgear GA620T). For FreeBSD I've found that use nothing Martin> beats the ti with its special firmware. I don't think I've had a 'ti' in the shop, but I did find that 5.x is substantially better than 4.8... Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================