On 8/30/06, Danny Braniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ever since 6.1 I've seen fluctuations in the performance of
the em (Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet).
motherboard OBN (On Board NIC)
---------------- ------------------
1- Intel SE7501WV2S Intel 82546EB::2.1
2- Intel SE7320VP2D2 INTEL 82541
3- Sun Fire X4100 Server Intel(R) PRO/1000
test 1: writing to a NetApp filer via NFS/UDP
FreeBSD Linux
MegaBytes/sec
1- Average: 18.48 32.61
2- Average: 15.69 35.72
3- Average: 16.61 29.69
(interstingly, doing NFS/TCP instead of NFS/UDP shows an increase in speed of
around 60% on FreeBSD but none on Linux)
test2: iperf using 1 as server:
FreeBSD(*) Linux
Mbits/sec
1- 926 905 (this machine was busy)
2- 545 798
3- 910 912
*: did a 'sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536'
So, it seems to me something is not that good in the UDP department, but
I can't find what to tweek.
Any help?
danny
Have discussed this some internally, the best idea I've heard is that
UDP is not giving us the interrupt rate that TCP would, so we end up
not cleaning up as often, and thus descriptors might not be as quickly
available.. Its just speculation at this point.
Try this: the default is only to have 256 descriptors, try going for the MAX
which is 4K.
Cheers,
Jack
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