On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 02:24:44PM -0500, Sten Daniel Soersdal said: > Jean-Claude MICHOT wrote: > >The server is a DELL PowerEdge 860 freshly installed with > >FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 (GENERIC Kernel). > > > >There's no problem with input throughput (upto 980 Mbits) but output > >throughput never go upper to 540 Mbits :( > > > >Just for test, i have add to this server an Intel Gigabit Ethernet board > >(em) and there's no problem to output data up to around 980 Mbits with > >this addon board. > > > >If i boot the server with Linux Ubuntu, there's no output throughput > >problem with Broadcom, so it seem to be FreeBSD bge driver problem. > > > >I'm not the only one to have poor output performance with bge on > >DELL PowerEdge 860 > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2007-June/014373.html > > > >I have also try various patch or setup driver default values > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2007-November/015951.html > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2007-November/015956.html > > > >But all theses attempts to get better ouput performance was unsuccessful :( > > > >Any idea are welcome. > > > >PS: If it's usefull to debug and try to fix the problem, i can provide > > root access to a DELL PE860 test server with bge. > > Have you tried setting the tcp send and receive windows? > The defaults are: > > net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 32768 > net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 65536 > > Also you might want to try to lower: > > net.inet.tcp.delacktime: 100
Yes, no difference. But as i said, same freebsd "config" with Intel em board instead of Broadcom bge, and there's no output throuhgput problem. JC -- "Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Isaac Asimov _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
