Re: RFC: FreeBSD I/OAT driver

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:41 PM 8/30/2006, Prafulla Deuskar wrote: Dual core Woodcrest Bensley Chipset Netperf Receive Test - 64k IO size 6.1-RELEASE SMP Kernel MTU 1500 bytes Num Ports Thr(Native) Thr(I/OAT) CPU (Native) CPU (I/OAT) (Mbps) (Mbps) (%) (%) 1 943 943

Re: Tee packets

2006-08-30 Thread Stephen Clark
Miroslav Lachman wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, We have a monitoring app that receives udp packets from units in the field. We are in the process of increasing the number of units we have reporting and are seeing some performance issues with our current hardware. I would like be

Re: Tee packets

2006-08-30 Thread Julian Elischer
Miroslav Lachman wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, We have a monitoring app that receives udp packets from units in the field. We are in the process of increasing the number of units we have reporting and are seeing some performance issues with our current hardware. I would like be ab

Re: RFC: FreeBSD I/OAT driver

2006-08-30 Thread Prafulla Deuskar
Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Jack Vogel writes: > > We are making our development driver for the I/OAT engine available for > > download, experimentation, and comment available at: > > > > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42302&package_id=20222

Re: Tee packets

2006-08-30 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, We have a monitoring app that receives udp packets from units in the field. We are in the process of increasing the number of units we have reporting and are seeing some performance issues with our current hardware. I would like be able to somehow route a cop

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Philippe LAQUET
"The master of the address sends out CARP advertisement messages via multicast using the CARP protocol (IP Protocol 112) on a regular basis, and the backup hosts listen for this advertisement. If the advertisements stop, the backup hosts will begin advertising." I'm afraid CARP will not be ro

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Philippe LAQUET
You can also take a look on LVS/IPVS... http://kb.linuxvirtualserver.org/wiki/LVS/TUN_mode_with_FreeBSD_and_Solaris_realserver The software is also available for FreeBSD and works on WAN architectures. I didn't test it yet but used sucessfully on Lin boxes. Hope this helps... Philippe LAQUET

Re: tcp/udp performance

2006-08-30 Thread Jack Vogel
On 8/30/06, Danny Braniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ever since 6.1 I've seen fluctuations in the performance of the em (Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet). motherboard OBN (On Board NIC) -- 1- Intel SE

Re: tcp/udp performance

2006-08-30 Thread Mohan Srinivasan
Hi, 1) Have you made sure there are no NFS rexmits reported by nfsstat -c ? 2) I haven't run thruput tests lately, but when I tested NFS/UDP thruput a few months ago, I routinely got over 70MB/s sequential read thruput and over 80MB/s sequential write thruput (against filers). I use

Re: RFC: FreeBSD I/OAT driver

2006-08-30 Thread Jack Vogel
There have been a couple requests for more info about I/OAT in general. While I think the hardware specs are still only available with NDA, there are some public papers and descriptions at the URL: http://www.intel.com/technology/ioacceleration/ Cheers, Jack ___

Re: RFC: FreeBSD I/OAT driver

2006-08-30 Thread Jack Vogel
On 8/30/06, Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Excellent! Can you share some of these results? I would love to try it, but I don't have FreeBSD on any machine with I/OAT hardware. Prafulla had the results I've taken a very quick look at it. Maybe I'm just being dense, but I don'

Re: RFC: FreeBSD I/OAT driver

2006-08-30 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Jack Vogel writes: > We are making our development driver for the I/OAT engine available for > download, experimentation, and comment available at: > > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42302&package_id=202220 > > This includes a core driver for the dma har

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Jakubik
Max Laier wrote: On Wednesday 30 August 2006 18:52, Mike Jakubik wrote: Max Laier wrote: Have a look at: http://www.countersiege.com/doc/pfsync-carp/#big for one idea. All requirements (carp, pf and pfsync) are available in FreeBSD as well. You can load balance with CARP, but A

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Max Laier
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 18:52, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Max Laier wrote: > > Have a look at: http://www.countersiege.com/doc/pfsync-carp/#big for > > one idea. All requirements (carp, pf and pfsync) are available in > > FreeBSD as well. > > You can load balance with CARP, but AFAIK it only works

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Jakubik
Max Laier wrote: Have a look at: http://www.countersiege.com/doc/pfsync-carp/#big for one idea. All requirements (carp, pf and pfsync) are available in FreeBSD as well. You can load balance with CARP, but AFAIK it only works on the local network segment, i.e. it wont work past a router.

Re: sending NGM_BPF_SET_PROGRAM message to a bpf node from a program

2006-08-30 Thread Rajkumar S
On 8/30/06, Gleb Smirnoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The cookie shouldn't be NGM_GENERIC_COOKIE, but should be NGM_BPF_COOKIE. Thanks a lot, it's working now! raj ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Tee packets

2006-08-30 Thread Stephen Clark
Hello List, We have a monitoring app that receives udp packets from units in the field. We are in the process of increasing the number of units we have reporting and are seeing some performance issues with our current hardware. I would like be able to somehow route a copy of each packet to ano

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 04:22:54PM +0200, Max Laier wrote: M> > > I'd like to set up a load balancing and resiliance system to M> > > load balance between a bunch of web servers running Apache tomcat M> > > (slow java stuff). Ideally I'd like each client IP to get mapped to a M> > > certain server

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Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Max Laier
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 15:26, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Baldur Gislason (baldur) writes: > > I'd like to set up a load balancing and resiliance system to > > load balance between a bunch of web servers running Apache tomcat > > (slow java stuff). Ideally I'd like each client IP to get mapped to a

Re: sending NGM_BPF_SET_PROGRAM message to a bpf node from a program

2006-08-30 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 06:01:10PM +0530, Rajkumar S wrote: R> and messaging the bpf: using the following code fragment. R> R>if (NgSendMsg(cfd, "bpf:", NGM_GENERIC_COOKIE, R> NGM_BPF_SET_PROGRAM, bpf_hookprog, (sizeof R> (struct ng_bpf_hookprog) + fp.bf_len * sizeof (

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Vince
Phil Regnauld wrote: > Baldur Gislason (baldur) writes: >> I'd like to set up a load balancing and resiliance system to >> load balance between a bunch of web servers running Apache tomcat (slow java >> stuff). >> Ideally I'd like each client IP to get mapped to a certain server and keep >> that

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Phil Regnauld
Baldur Gislason (baldur) writes: > I'd like to set up a load balancing and resiliance system to > load balance between a bunch of web servers running Apache tomcat (slow java > stuff). > Ideally I'd like each client IP to get mapped to a certain server and keep > that > mapping throughout the ent

Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Baldur Gislason
I'd like to set up a load balancing and resiliance system to load balance between a bunch of web servers running Apache tomcat (slow java stuff). Ideally I'd like each client IP to get mapped to a certain server and keep that mapping throughout the entire session. I'd also like to have some means

sending NGM_BPF_SET_PROGRAM message to a bpf node from a program

2006-08-30 Thread Rajkumar S
Hi, I am trying to write a program to create a bpf node and assign a bpf filter to that node. I am able to create the node and attch the node to 3 other nodes, but not settng up a bpf filter to the node. I am initialising the ng_bpf_hookprog struct using the following code: struct ng_bpf_hookpr

Re: tcp/udp performance

2006-08-30 Thread Claus Guttesen
test 1: writing to a NetApp filer via NFS/UDP FreeBSD Linux MegaBytes/sec 1- Average: 18.48 32.61 2- Average: 15.69 35.72 3- Average: 16.61 29.69 (interstingly, doing NFS/TCP instead of NFS/UDP shows an increas

tcp/udp performance

2006-08-30 Thread Danny Braniss
ever since 6.1 I've seen fluctuations in the performance of the em (Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet). motherboard OBN (On Board NIC) -- 1- Intel SE7501WV2S Intel 82546EB::2.1 2- Inte

Re: Long keepidle time

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Simon Walton wrote: Thanks. I did not go with ipfw2 partly because of concerns about whether it was stable enough (this is on 4.10) and also because it requires rebuilding part of userland. Perhaps this would be the way to go after all. The only way you'll know is to try

Re: Long keepidle time

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Chris wrote: whats the point of keeping a connection alive (hung) to a dead network for 2 hours tho? That I dont understand either. Chris I used to wonder that myself. From the perspective of minimizing the number of open sockets, it makes sense to kill connections to