Network performance in a dual CPU system

2006-02-10 Thread Marcos Bedinelli
two processors. Any help/insight is greatly appreciated Thanks! -- Marcos Bedinelli ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Network performance in a dual CPU system

2006-02-10 Thread Marcos Bedinelli
l consider your suggestion. Thanks, -- Marcos Bedinelli UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Develop. Group - CNS voice : +1 416 978 70634 BANCROFT AV - RV 101C fax : +1 416 978 6620TORONTO ON M5S 1C

Network performance in a dual CPU system

2006-02-10 Thread Marcos Bedinelli
Hello all, thanks for the replies. Most of you have suggested that I turn on polling and give it a try. The machine is in production, hence I need to schedule downtime for that. The system is mainly being used as a dedicated router. It runs OSPF, BGP and IPFW (around 150 rules). OSPF and BGP

Re: Network performance in a dual CPU system

2006-02-10 Thread Marcos Bedinelli
Hi, On 10-Feb-06, at 13:06, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marcos Bedinelli wrote: [ ... ] mull [~]$vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd03466 0 irq6: fdc010 0 irq13: npx0

Re: Network performance in a dual CPU system

2006-02-10 Thread Marcos Bedinelli
Hi Julian, On 10-Feb-06, at 14:54, Julian Elischer wrote: I have found that most people can optimise there ipfw rulests considerably. for example: a first rule of: 1 allow ip from any to any in recv {inside interfacfe} 2 allow ip from any to any out xmit {inside interface} will cut your ipfw

Re: Network performance in a dual CPU system

2006-02-13 Thread Marcos Bedinelli
Hi, On 10-Feb-06, at 16:39, dima wrote: The second CPU wouldn't help you for sure. There's only one [swi1: net] kernel thread which deals with all the kernel traffic. The option of per-CPU [swi: net] threads was discussed on freebsd-arch@ several months ago, but it wouldn't be implemented so

Re: Network performance in a dual CPU system

2006-02-14 Thread Marcos Bedinelli
assemble a dual processor system from spare parts and also play with fastforwarding. I will be glad to post the results of my tests to the mailing list, but it may take awhile. Cheers! On 14-Feb-06, at 9:52, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:27:46AM -0500, Marcos Bedinell

Re: [fbsd] Re: [fbsd] Network performance in a dual CPU system

2006-04-28 Thread Marcos Bedinelli
Hi, On 27-Apr-06, at 10:38, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: Hi, Robert, On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:54:21PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 60 root 1 -44 -163 0K 8K WAIT