RE: 10Gb/s ixgbe and mbuf performance tuning.

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jack Vogel [mailto:jfvo...@gmail.com] wrote: >Do you have LRO enabled? Also, you say it stops routing, do you mean it >passes non-routing traffic, or does everything stop? I do have LRO enabled on both of the interfaces. It stops accepting traffic. It doesn't

Re: 10Gb/s ixgbe and mbuf performance tuning.

Do you have LRO enabled? Also, you say it stops routing, do you mean it passes non-routing traffic, or does everything stop? Jack On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Kirk Davis wrote: > Hi, > >I am running FreeBSD 8.1p3 amd64 with 6Gb of RAM. This > is a router using Quagga for BG

10Gb/s ixgbe and mbuf performance tuning.

Hi, I am running FreeBSD 8.1p3 amd64 with 6Gb of RAM. This is a router using Quagga for BGP. It has two 10Gb/s network connections using the intel ixgbe 2.4.4 driver. It is handling routing for about 200 remote sites and about 300k simultaneous sessions through the box. After a f