From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 29 08:36:48 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 6209337B401 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 08:36:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-out.comcast.net (smtp-out.comcast.net [24.153.64.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764AD4401F for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 08:36:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nevans@talkpoint.com) Received: from paladin.nextvenue.com (pcp03126014pcs.avenel01.nj.comcast.net [68.38.172.93]) by mtaout03.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with SMTP id <0HH9006UT20EYI@mtaout03.icomcast.net> for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:36:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:36:22 -0400 From: Nick Evans In-reply-to: <20030629115827.GA637@unixpages.org> To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Message-id: <20030629113622.74655443.nevans@talkpoint.com> Organization: Talkpoint Communications MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20030629115827.GA637@unixpages.org> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:50:25 -0700 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: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:36:48 -0000 On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:58:27 -0400 Christian Brueffer wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:05:56PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > > >>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Sutter writes: > > > > Gregory> Will you please summarize the motherboard performance data so > > Gregory> we know which boards to buy and which to skip? Thanks. > > > > I've been working on such a summary. So far, the 'nvidia' chipset > > boards have all tested badly. They couldn't be coaxed to pass more > > than 100meg of traffic by any means we could discern. > > > > The K7S5A has been our mainstay. Many of them are DOA, but the ones > > that pass a couple weeks of cpuburn (see port) ... both on cpu and > > memory tests ... work amazingly well. These boards are limited to 300 > > megabit total thruput by being a 33Mhz 32bit PCI bus. > > > > We've been testing mainly Athlon boards ... we havn't seen good P4 > > boards ... but most of the boards we've had through for the P4 have > > been workstation and not server boards. > > > > The tiger tyan MPX is a dual board with 64 bit slots. I havn't had > > time to fully benchmark it becuase we use it as a fairly primary > > database server ... but it has generally been able to perform at or > > near the top of the class. > > > > There is an ASUS dusl board with 32-bit only slots and the AMD 76x > > chipset (unfortunately it's far away and I can't look at it). it's > > 32-bit slots run at 66Mhz and have extrodinarily good thruput. > > AFAICT, it's currently out of production ... but the dual board on the > > ASUS site looks very good. > > > > If you're talking about the ASUS A7M266-D, it actually has two 64bit > PCI slots (powering a SCSI controller and a NIC here). > It runs extremely well so far. > > - Christian > > -- > Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org > GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc > GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D I recently tested a Compaq DL380, 733Mhz processor, 512meg ram with two fiber 64-bit Intel Pro 1000's. The system (4.8-R) forwarded 500 megabits at about 20% idle with IPFilter loaded but with no rules. The system uses a ServerWorks chipset and has several 64-bit pci slots. I used netperf on several systems on either side of the firewall. In the next week or so I'll be testing two Pentium 4 2.4 gig systems with ServerWorks chipsets using a much larger cluster of load applying systems. I'll post those results. When I tested the same configuration on a Compaq 1850R (450Mhz, i440BX, 32-bit PCI) I could only muster about 250-270 megabits of traffic. I figured the PCI bus was the limiting factor and stepped up to the DL380. Previously I've forwarded 50,000 packets per second on a Celeron 900Mhz, Intel 810 chipset, 32-bit PCI (4.4-R) system with IPFilter loaded and IIRC 150 rules in effect. The system used Intel PRO/100S dual port server adapters. I used ping -f for those tests. I have access to about 25-30 systems to apply load with so if anyone wants something specific tested I might be able to work it into my schedule. Nick ------------------------------- nick.evans network.engineering talkpoint communications, inc. land 212.909.2967 cell