What is your performance like with -current and no knob twisting?
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:45 AM, rik <rikc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm a happy Openbsd "user"; we've beeing using it since 2001 as
> router/firewall in our datacenter facility (we host as ONG some no profit
> project and website).
> At the moment we're using a couple of SuperMicro with the following specs:
> OpenBSD 5.0 (GENERIC.MP) #59: Wed Aug 17 10:19:44 MDT 2011
> dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
> cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.98 GHz
> cpu0:
>
> FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,
> MWAIT,DS-CPL,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR,PDCM
> real mem = 3890663424 (3710MB)
> avail mem = 3816964096 (3640MB)
> ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 4 "Intel 82801G PCIE" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 17
> em0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82573E)" rev 0x03: msi,
> address 00:30:xx:xx:xx:xx
> ppb4 at pci0 dev 28 function 5 "Intel 82801G PCIE" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 16
> em1 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82573L)" rev 0x00: msi,
> address 00:30:xx:xx:xx:xx
>
> the netcard are on-board.
> Unfortunately we're a bit straggling with the performances as we have
> almost 100% interrupt with 110Mbps and 12k pps
> We've already increased net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen to 500 in order to avoid
> packet loss and also disabling pf has no influence.
> Do you think these performances are fair and we have to upgrade to better
> hardware to have higher pps and Mpbs?
> Beside trying to upgrade to the last stable and not use MP we have no idea
> how to procede
> Thanks for your help
> Alessandro
