Re: how to saturate 100Mbit

2003-12-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:29:07AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > 100*1024*1024/8/1500=8738.1(3) SI in bits across a network is base 10, not 2 (1000 vs 1024). -- Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: how to saturate 100Mbit

2003-12-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:29:07AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:17:06AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > the fxp has a problem which does not allow it to go above 103/110/120kpps > > depending on which descriptor model you use, no matter how fast > > the CPU is. > > C

Re: how to saturate 100Mbit

2003-12-13 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:17:06AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > the fxp has a problem which does not allow it to go above 103/110/120kpps > depending on which descriptor model you use, no matter how fast > the CPU is. Can you explain the problem, please? > Even not using any special kernel module

Re: how to saturate 100Mbit

2003-12-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:50:33AM -0500, Don Bowman wrote: ... > There is a netgraph module called ng_source which can do this. > It can achieve about 400Kpps or >1Gbps on a xeon system with > a gigabit card, should be able to saturate a fxp. the fxp has a problem which does not allow it to go ab

RE: how to saturate 100Mbit

2003-12-13 Thread Don Bowman
From: DrumFire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> dd if=holey-file of=/dev/null bs=10m > > > > I've got about 30% of CPU load for the server (P-133) and less than > > 35mbit/s on wire. > > Also you can try to dump traffic with tcpdump and send it with > > /usr/ports/net/tcpreplay > > I'm trying

Re: how to saturate 100Mbit

2003-12-13 Thread DrumFire
>> dd if=holey-file of=/dev/null bs=10m > > I've got about 30% of CPU load for the server (P-133) and less than > 35mbit/s on wire. Also you can try to dump traffic with tcpdump and send it with /usr/ports/net/tcpreplay I'm trying to send 100Mbit/s for 5-6 minutes with Ethernet frame size at 6

Re: how to saturate 100Mbit

2003-12-13 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:06:19AM -0500, Clark Gaylord wrote: > >Is it possible to saturate 100Mbit ethernet using FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE, > >Pentium-133 & Intel 430VX-based motherboard (PCI-33), > >Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet (fxp) ? > >I tried to use sendfile(2) on /dev/zero but that does not wor

Re: how to saturate 100Mbit

2003-12-12 Thread Nick Buraglio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can also use a tool like iperf to test things like this. Just a thought. nb On Dec 13, 2003, at 12:06 AM, Clark Gaylord wrote: Eugene Grosbein wrote: Is it possible to saturate 100Mbit ethernet using FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE, Pentium-133 & Intel 43

Re: how to saturate 100Mbit

2003-12-12 Thread Clark Gaylord
Eugene Grosbein wrote: Is it possible to saturate 100Mbit ethernet using FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE, Pentium-133 & Intel 430VX-based motherboard (PCI-33), Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet (fxp) ? I tried to use sendfile(2) on /dev/zero but that does not work. Then I created 8Tb holey file and used sendfile()