Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance

2005-09-04 Thread tony sarendal
> if you want help, your post should start "we have this router and i expect > it to be going that fast, but it only goes this fast." if your router is > already "fast enough", it can't get any faster. there's a only finite > number of clients, porn, and pipe to connect them. > I belive recent

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance [off topic]

2005-09-02 Thread Stephan A. Rickauer
Antti Nykdnen schrieb: On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:04:48AM +0200, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: "You see, most blokes will be playing at 10. Youre on 10, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push over the cliff...Eleven. One l

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance [off topic]

2005-09-02 Thread Antti Nykänen
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:04:48AM +0200, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: > "You see, most blokes will be playing at 10. Youre on 10, all the way > up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, > is if we need that extra push over the cliff...Eleven. One louder." "Why dont y

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance [off topic]

2005-09-02 Thread Stephan A. Rickauer
Ted Unangst schrieb: i don't understand why people keep asking the same question. if there were some "fast" sysctl knob, why would we set it to "slow"? why would there even be such a retarded knob? From Spinal Tap: "You see, most blokes will be playing at 10. Youre on 10, all the way up,

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance

2005-09-01 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Diego Augusto Dalmolin wrote: > because this server also handle spamd/squid/ftp-proxy... > I4ve forgotten to mention that.. that would have been helpful to know. but if your proxy has a backlog of 128 connections, a backlog of 129 or even 3456 connections is not going to he

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance

2005-09-01 Thread Diego Augusto Dalmolin
because this server also handle spamd/squid/ftp-proxy... I4ve forgotten to mention that.. I4ve got a book (Absolute BSD - The ultimate guide to FreeBSD) I know this isn4t a openbsd book.. but I4ve got some information about NMBCLUSTER and tcp.sendspace/recvspace that might help Sorry for the inco

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance

2005-09-01 Thread Adam
Diego Augusto Dalmolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It handles the size of listen() queue... If you know that, then why would you think it needs to be increased to do routing and NAT? Adam

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance

2005-09-01 Thread Diego Augusto Dalmolin
It handles the size of listen() queue... I know openbsd is a great SO.. IMHO the best one I ever worked whit!! and I also know Theo & CO. are doing their best to maintain this system I just want to learn.. and I thought misc@ would be a place where I could find relevant information.. my 10 questi

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance

2005-09-01 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Diego Augusto Dalmolin wrote: > Ok but... don4t you the default values like kern.somaxconn=128 > are too small for an OBSD router/nat with 2 x Gig lans + 2 x 4Mbps > internet conections do you even know what kern.somaxconn does? -- And that's why we need each other.

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance

2005-08-31 Thread eric
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:05:48 -0300, Diego Augusto Dalmolin proclaimed... > Ok but... don4t you the default values like kern.somaxconn=128 > are too small for an OBSD router/nat with 2 x Gig lans + 2 x 4Mbps > internet conections Maybe, but don't expect support. That said, here's what we use on

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance

2005-08-31 Thread Diego Augusto Dalmolin
Ok but... don4t you the default values like kern.somaxconn=128 are too small for an OBSD router/nat with 2 x Gig lans + 2 x 4Mbps internet conections 2005/8/31, Diego Augusto Dalmolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Where I could find a material for studding how to improve OBSD network > performance to max

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance

2005-08-31 Thread jimmy
Quoting Diego Augusto Dalmolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Where I could find a material for studding how to improve OBSD network > performance to maximum, using sysctl, kernel compilation, etc... > > > -- > Diego Augusto Dalmolin > (41) 9648-0882 > > Search the archives, this has been discussed not s

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance

2005-08-31 Thread J. Lievisse Adriaanse
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:47:54 -0300 Diego Augusto Dalmolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where I could find a material for studding how to improve OBSD network > performance to maximum, using sysctl, man sysctl > kernel compilation, etc... Well, simple, DON'T compile your own kernel. Because those