Hi list,
Any happy ALIX user here ? I plan to deploy alix board on 2 of my client..
currently serving as gateway/firewall/squid and a little bit of samba.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:05 AM, rik <rikc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> at the moment we have the default configuration, beside the increase of
> net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen to 500 (I trust OpenBSD programmers more than I
> trust myself about tuning).
> I haven't had yet the opportunity to upgrade it to -current, I'll do in the
> next few days.
> Just a small punctualization about the pps, I have 22-24k in total, 10-12k
> per card (internet facing and LAN facing)
> Thanks again
> Alessandro
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:31 PM, noah pugsley <noah.pugs...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
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