Greetings,
The default values are based on 100 MB/s fxp driver. Luigi did heaps of
work a few years ago on this, and arrived at these values after lots of
testing (i think). (I also remember reading some interesting stuff where he
had fxp and a 3com card and was testing to see how many frames he could push
out of each differnet card - fxp won!). Given we're now running 1000MB/s em
cards, it might be safe to say you can increase the defaults by 10. You
have to edit the source to change some of the defaults:
/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_poll.c
#define MIN_POLL_BURST_MAX 100
#define MAX_POLL_BURST_MAX 10000
I tried doing this, but encountered the problems with the throughput somehow
related to the em cards and gave up. Maybe you're results will be better.
Regards,
Dave Seddon
Ferdinand Goldmann writes:
Kevin Day wrote:
In one case, we had a system acting as a router. It was a Dell PowerEdge
2650, with two dual "server" adapters. each were on separate PCI busses.
3 were "lan" links, and one was a "wan" link. The lan links were
receiving about 300mbps each, all going out the "wan" link at near
900mbps at peak. We were never able to get above 944mbps, but I never
cared enough to figure out where the bottleneck was there.
944mbps is a very good value, anyway. What we see in our setup are
throuput rates around 300mbps or below. When testing with tcpspray,
throughput hardly exceeded 13MB/s.
Are you running vlans on your interface? Our em0-card connects several
sites together, which are all sitting on separate vlan interfaces for
which the em0 acts as parent interface.
This was with PCI-X, and a pretty stripped config on the server side.
Maybe this makes a difference, too. We only have a quite old xSeries 330
with PCI and a 1.2GHz CPU.
Nothing fancy on polling, i think we set HZ to 10000
Ten-thousand? Or is this a typo, and did you mean thousand?
This is weird. :-( Please, is there any good documentation on tuning
device polling? The man page does not give any useful pointers about
values to use for Gbit cards. I have already read things about people
using 2000, 4000HZ ... Gaaah!
I tried with 1000 and 2000 so far, without good results. It seems like
everybody makes wild assumptions on what values to use for polling.
, turned on idle_poll, and set user_frac to 10 because we had some cpu
hungry tasks that were not a high priority.
I think I red somewhere about problems with idle_poll. How high is your
burst_max value? Are you seeing a lot of ierrs?
*sigh* :-( confusing.
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