Re: Network stack returning EFBIG?

2014-03-20 Thread Daniel Braniss
turn off TSO the problems sound similar to the one I reported a while back. truing off tso fixed it. danny On Mar 20, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote: > I recently put a new server running 9.2 (with a local patches for NFS) > into production, and it's immediately started to fail in an

recommended 10g cards

2012-06-07 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi I will be 'experimenting' with 10g in the next few months, so I need to buy some cards, After googling for some time, I noticed that there is not realy much real info, and some of it is a bit dated. Since these cards are pricy, could those that have such cards share some info? cheers,

Re: recommended 10g cards

2012-06-08 Thread Daniel Braniss
> > > On Friday, June 8, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > > Hi > > I will be 'experimenting' with 10g in the next few months, so > > I need to buy some cards, > > After googling for some time, I noticed that there is not realy muc

Re: recommended 10g cards

2012-06-09 Thread Daniel Braniss
thanks to all that responded! from the rough polling, it seems that the order list is Intel, Myricom Solarflare, Chelsio Now I'll try and 'borrow' some of these. thanks again, danny ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list ht

igb issues

2012-12-13 Thread Daniel Braniss
hi, I'm trying out a 4way Dell PowerEdge C5125/AMD server with onboard Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection version - 2.3.1 when running FreeBsd 8.3 (from sometime around Nov 2) all is ok. with latest (at least Fridays') 9.1-PRERELEASE it's getting 'constipated'. It seems that NFS writes

Re: igb issues

2012-12-14 Thread Daniel Braniss
urprice! all is ok, I will now have to go through logs to see what happend, but my guess is that the switch this host was connected was under heavy load, it has a cluster of HPCs. thanks, have a nice weekend and season greatings! danny > > Jack > > > On Thu, D

broadcast oddity

2011-07-18 Thread Daniel Braniss
this code behaves correctly when run from a diskless host which booted via PXE, but fails on a host that was booted from disk. hint: the non working sends a packet with a non ethernet broadcast address and an ip address of 255.255.255.255, the working version sets the ethernet address to 0x

Re: broadcast oddity

2011-07-19 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi Eygene, > Daniel, good day. > > Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 05:04:27PM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > this code behaves correctly when run from a diskless host which > > booted via PXE, but fails on a host that was booted from disk. > > hint: the non working sends a

Re: broadcast oddity

2011-07-20 Thread Daniel Braniss
> Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:40:11AM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > > And that non-broadcast ethernet address is the MAC of your > > > default router? > > yes. with dest_addr = INADDR_BROADCAST on the non diskless: 09:44:29.850576 00:0d:b9:00:72:a8 (oui Unknown) > 0

ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

2015-08-17 Thread Daniel Braniss
hi, I have a host (Dell R730) with both cards, connected to an HP8200 switch at 10Gb. when writing to the same storage (netapp) this is what I get: ix0:~130MGB/s mlxen0 ~330MGB/s this is via nfs/tcpv3 I can get similar (

Re: ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

2015-08-17 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On Aug 17, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:27:41AM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote: > >> hi, >> I have a host (Dell R730) with both cards, connected to an HP8200 >> switch at 10Gb. >> when writing to the

Re: ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

2015-08-17 Thread Daniel Braniss
:-) > I used to tweak the card settings, but now it's just stock. You may want to > check your settings, the Mellanox may just have better defaults for your > switch. > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <mailto:s...@zxy.spb.ru>> wrote: > O

Re: ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

2015-08-17 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On Aug 17, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: > > Daniel Braniss wrote: >> >>> On Aug 17, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Christopher Forgeron >>> wrote: >>> >>> FYI, I can regularly hit 9.3 Gib/s with my Intel X520-DA2's and FreeBSD >>&g

Re: ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

2015-08-18 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On Aug 18, 2015, at 12:49 AM, Rick Macklem wrote: > > Daniel Braniss wrote: >> >>> On Aug 17, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: >>> >>> Daniel Braniss wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Aug 17, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Christopher Forger

Re: ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

2015-08-18 Thread Daniel Braniss
sorry, it’s been a tough day, we had a major meltdown, caused by a faulty gbic :-( anyways, could you tell me what to do? comment out, fix the off by one? the machine is not yet production. thanks, danny > On 18 Aug 2015, at 16:32, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > On 08/18/15 14:53, Ric

Re: ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

2015-08-19 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On 19 Aug 2015, at 16:00, Rick Macklem wrote: > > Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >> On 08/19/15 09:42, Yonghyeon PYUN wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:00:52AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On 08/18/15 23:54, Rick Macklem wrote: > Ouch! Yes, I now see that the code that counts the

Re: ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

2015-08-22 Thread Daniel Braniss
ment in sys/net/if_var.h it >>> is clear >>> what it means, but for some reason I didn't read it that way before? (I >>> think it was >>> the part that said the driver didn't have to subtract for the headers that >>> confused me?) >>&g

Re: ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

2015-08-23 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On 22 Aug 2015, at 14:59, Rick Macklem wrote: > > Daniel Braniss wrote: >> >>> On Aug 22, 2015, at 12:46 AM, Rick Macklem wrote: >>> >>> Yonghyeon PYUN wrote: >>>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:00:35AM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: >

Re: ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

2015-08-24 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On 24 Aug 2015, at 02:02, Rick Macklem wrote: > > Daniel Braniss wrote: >> >>> On 22 Aug 2015, at 14:59, Rick Macklem wrote: >>> >>> Daniel Braniss wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Aug 22, 2015, at 12:46 AM, Rick Macklem wrote: &g

Re: ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

2015-08-24 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On 24 Aug 2015, at 10:22, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > On 08/24/15 01:02, Rick Macklem wrote: >> The other thing is the degradation seems to cut the rate by about half each >> time. >> 300-->150-->70 I have no idea if this helps to explain it. > > Might be a NUMA binding issue for the proc

Re: ix(intel) vs mlxen(mellanox) 10Gb performance

2015-08-25 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On Aug 24, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: > > Daniel Braniss wrote: >> >>> On 24 Aug 2015, at 10:22, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >>> >>> On 08/24/15 01:02, Rick Macklem wrote: >>>> The other thing is the degradation seems to cut