Try looking into FreeBSD's "polling" mode - i.e. interrupt free Network cards. If your shifting a lot of small packets (such as online gaming stuff etc.) - you may find your milage pretty limited using standard PC kit - as the x86 architecture wasn't really designed for shifting lots of small packets around [as I've seen many a time in the past :(]
This router is routing 99% NNTP traffic, so I wouldn't think small packet size would be it. I tried polling, and its greatly increased the amount of "idle CPU", and Interupt is around 20% now...
That's certainly a step in the right direction :)
But something is still very wrong performance wise. It has helped, but I still can't push in/out nearly 100Mb/sec. (100Mb in, 100Mb out I mean). A simple FTP transfer locally through the routers gigabit interface causes our internet performance to plummet. I've disabled all the onboard stuff that was sharing IRQs with PCI cards, but I didn't figure that was an issue, didn't make a difference either way. Would the fact the gigabit is on the same PCI bus have any bearing? I would expect to at least get 100BT performance even so, but I don't have any experience with gigabit ethernet...
The only thing I can suggest is try different PCI slots, or Gigabit cards, or, worst case a different system. Having NIC's on separate PCI busses (as opposed to both on the same PCI bus) may help it [But that's probably going to need a new board etc.]
You don't say what Gigabit nic's your using? - I've had a lot of varied results with different nic's, with surprisingly cheap 10/100/1000Mbit cards giving 'reasonable' performance - but get left standing for dust by other more expensive cards.
The only other thing I can think of is, check the duplex/media options are all setup properly on the cards / switches etc. - or try forcing things to fdx etc.
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