I was happy /w the re driver too until 4.4 (I think my previous firewall/samba share server was 4.2)
I did mention in my original post I was watching systat vmstat, during the post I mentioned I was watching hard drive kbyte writes. When I decided to run out and buy the em I noticed my re was doing 4 to 6k+ interrupt requests a second. and I was "tweaked" samba it rose even higher via systat vmstat. I didn't mention the interrupt storm because I no longer want to fuss the system or argue /w tico or mess with duplex settings as it was all pointless - as I saw it already had the solution to my problem in hand for 36+cdn $: the new em card. Am I happy about the change? hell ya, my doorstop compaq pentium 866 writes to the 1GB WD hard drive between 18000+k every systat vmstat blip. I ain't complaining now. I only mention it here because the original poster of the thread didn't mention how his network was configured. If his nvidia+8169s phy is his samba interface I'm left to wonder if he is seeing something similar to what I was experiencing. And like a typical end user I was after results, thus instead of further testing & further listerv followup i threw money at it to make it work to a point where I was satisfied.. > rl is pretty different to re. I'm fairly happy with re(4) considering > how cheap they are. > > re -> bge Is that loopback or between two boxes with a switch in the middle? > re-box$ tcpbench bge-box > pid elapsed_ms bytes Mbps > 15569 1030 69931144 543.155 > 15569 2024 67539536 544.125 > 15569 3027 68251072 544.375 > 15569 4020 67548992 544.201 > 15569 5024 68086608 543.064 > 15569 6027 67858352 541.243 > 15569 7018 67436728 544.943 > 15569 8022 68277960 544.590 > 15569 9025 68331152 545.014 > > of course the more expensive NICs are better. bge -> re > > bge-box$ tcpbench re-box > pid elapsed_ms bytes Mbps > 31564 1007 110421616 877.232 > 31564 2009 104687432 836.663 > 31564 3007 104840696 840.406 > 31564 4007 109819488 879.435 > 31564 5007 116304656 931.369 > 31564 6007 115594504 925.682 > 31564 7007 116234288 930.805 > 31564 8007 116101120 929.739 > 31564 9006 116120392 929.893 > 31564 10006 116213104 930.635 > 31564 11006 115465648 924.650 > 31564 12006 116225744 929.806 > 31564 13006 116123152 929.915 > > (single tcp stream, opteron 146 on a supermicro aplus board > running i386 - for anyone interested, CWM on the bge was peaking > at 46). > > re0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x01: RTL8168 2 (0x3800), apic 2 int 16 (irq 11), address 00:30:18:a0:6a:f6 > rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 2 > > bge0 at pci2 dev 3 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5704C" rev 0x10, BCM5704 B0 (0x2100): apic 2 int 8 (irq 5), address 00:30:48:58:86:40 > brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0 > >> My ports/misc thread: >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=122703016321404&w=2 >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=122719611210846&w=2 <!-snip-!> Cheers & good day.
