Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:20:29 +0100 From: Marcin Markowski <mmarkowski@leon.pl> To: <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org> Subject: Performance problem using Intel X520-DA2 Message-ID: <a231a44c6c803075c7b456a6189ff6ce@leon.pl>
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Hello,
We use FreeBSD as sniffer (libpcap programs) and we experience
performance problems when incoming traffic is greater than 7.5Gbps/s.
If we check 'top' we see that first irq from network card is using
100% CPU. I've tested this on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE
(on 9.0 we can see also kernel thread named {ix0 que} using 100% CPU),
and both systems behave the same. In logs we see also:
interrupt storm detected on "irq268:"; throttling interrupt source
Our server platform is Intel SR2600URBRP, 2x Xeon X5650, 6GB RAM and
NIC Intel X520-DA2.
I'm not sure if problem is with NIC or motherboard in SR2600URBRP,
because everything is fine when we use other server configuration:
Intel SR1630GP, 1x Xeon X3450, 8GB RAM, NIC X520-DA2
My /boot/loader.conf:
kern.ipc.nmbclusters=262144
hw.ixgbe.rxd=2048
hw.ixgbe.txd=2048
hw.ixgbe.num_queues=16
/etc/sysctl.conf
hw.intr_storm_threshold=10000
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Marcin Markowski
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