From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 9 22:19:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C70C416A41F for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:19:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from annkok2001@yahoo.com) Received: from web53309.mail.yahoo.com (web53309.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.49.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0930343D4C for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:19:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from annkok2001@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 20906 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Jan 2006 22:19:41 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=G+j6uTuoD3KrL1wkrvXbu1uLQ8UuMlFJk2oioPZfBEIyjxIvYgynnEyB0H3+e6fY6rKq0ucZdCit6ZgCOskw0DcpssEkVf67n2mQJvcgVohgahKXC1DxtbagIGRrSmx/80Hrm/rcEVjp/CxqDSQ98ptr31Hra7emGHvyHXu1n7E= ; Message-ID: <20060109221941.20904.qmail@web53309.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.49.254.13] by web53309.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:19:41 PST Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:19:41 -0800 (PST) From: ann kok To: "Andrew P." In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: pls help network thoughput X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:19:42 -0000 Hi Andrew and all I installed freebsd 6.0, complied the kernal and put the polling setting to sysctl.conf after rebooting, it shows "kern.polling.enable is deprecated" use ifconfig (8) Do you have any ideas? 2/ how can I page up the see previous boot message in the console? Thank you for your help --- "Andrew P." wrote: > On 1/7/06, ann kok wrote: > > Dear Andrew > > > > Thank you for your help in advance > > > > I keep checking the loading. it is running fine. > the > > load averages is not over to 1.0 > > > > > > System info: > > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz > > 2G memory > > > > for the sysctl var: > > > > kern.polling.enable=1 > > kern.polling.user_frac=10 > > kern.ipc.somaxconn=2048 > > kern.polling.poll_in_trap=1 > > > > I don't run iperf and my switch is not > managable. > > > > could you provide any hints to check it? > > > > and tune the system also. > > > > Thank you again > > > > > > > > last pid: 47008; load averages: 0.00, 0.02, > 0.02 > > up > > 80+11:09:17 22:42:18 > > 31 processes: 1 running, 30 sleeping > > CPU states: % user, % nice, % system, > > % interrupt, % idle > > Mem: 100M Active, 1639M Inact, 201M Wired, 60M > Cache, > > 199M Buf, 11M Free > > With such a high-spec box, you should probably be > running > FreeBSD 6. It has much more polling related sysctl > tunable. > We've got too FreeBSD 5 firewalls at our site (which > are doing > just fine), and I'm gonna upgrade them to 6.0 one of > these > days. > > Look at "netstat -s" to see how many packets are > "broken". > Maybe your switch/cabling can't cope with the load. > > Where are the figures from the top output. I only > see percent > signs. > > Try running iperf. It's really easy. Just install > the port on two > boxes, run iperf -s on one and iperf -c > on the > other. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com