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Date:      Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:03:51 -0700
From:      "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To:        "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E5le_Kristoffersen?=" <staale@kristoffersen.ws>
Cc:        Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Slow networkperformance in current?
Message-ID:  <2a41acea0707201203o28722443v8ab2bc9a8450bb92@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070720184550.GA22877@eschew.pusen.org>
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On 7/20/07, St=E5le Kristoffersen <staale@kristoffersen.ws> wrote:
> On 2007-07-20 at 08:10, Jack Vogel wrote:
> > On 7/20/07, St=E5le Kristoffersen <staalebk@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> > >On 2007-07-20 at 09:08, Vince wrote:
> > >> Silly as it might seem when did you last recompile the iperf port? I=
 was
> > >> about to post a me too post yesterday, until I updated my system to =
use
> > >> the latest sched_ule at which point iperf froze my system completely=
,
> > >> recompiling the port fixed the freeze and the <100Mbit/sec on localh=
ost.
> > >> I think it was compiled against the wrong threading library (been a
> > >> while since i last recompiled it.)
> > >
> > >Actually I just spotted this myself, when I recompiled I got in the ra=
nge
> > >of 600Mbits/sec to localhost. However I do noot see the increase you s=
ee
> > >when running it multiple times. I still think 600Mbits/sec is a bit lo=
w.
> > >
> > >If I run it to a remote host I see the same numbers (around 600Mbits/s=
ec)
> >
> > I am actually quite impressed with the stack right now, with our new
> > Oplin hardware and the ixgbe driver I have 9.8 Gb/s pumping thru
> > it. Of course its all about adequate hardware, configuration, and
> > tuning.
>
> Then it must be something I'm doing wrong. It's not that I'm running such=
 a
> beast of a machine, but it should manage to fill a gigabitlink (and it di=
d
> a few months ago!).
>
> Can you point out any tuning I might have detuned?

The stack being capable, as I said, of delivering the goods says nothing
of the driver, what NIC is it? Did you ask if anyone else with that
hardware is seeing a problem, I came into this thread somewhat late.

Jack



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