Re: unable to set mtu 9000 on Intel x520-t2 adapter

2012-01-13 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Hi Jack, On 01/13/12 13:00, Jack Vogel wrote: Opps, i meant kern.ipc.nmb* of course... This was precisely the right place to tweak, thanks! Iordan ___ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To un

Re: unable to set mtu 9000 on Intel x520-t2 adapter

2012-01-13 Thread Jack Vogel
Its a system resource thing, when you increase to a 9K mtu the driver will use 9K mbuf clusters, and with the queues and rings you have its unable to get enough. Very important to look at kern.ipc.nbm* In your case nmbjumbo9 is the pool, if you had 4K it would those clusters. Change the defaults

Re: unable to set mtu 9000 on Intel x520-t2 adapter

2012-01-13 Thread Jack Vogel
Opps, i meant kern.ipc.nmb* of course... Jack On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: > Its a system resource thing, when you increase to a 9K mtu the driver will > use 9K > mbuf clusters, and with the queues and rings you have its unable to get > enough. > > Very important to look

unable to set mtu 9000 on Intel x520-t2 adapter

2012-01-13 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Hello, We are testing FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on a pair of machines with 10GBASE-T Intel x520-t2 adapters interconnected with a straight-through cat6 rj45 cable. With mtu 1500, we are achieving aproximately 4 gigabits/s both directions as demonstrated with iperf. We wanted to test with mtu 9000 t