Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-11 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, after testing severals loadbalancing (LACP) types with Cisco, we saw, that we never get more than 112MB/s with two network cards and iperf. So, we tested without loadbalancing, 4 Clients (iperf -f M -c ip) and two target IPs. Every IP has his own 1Gb/s network card. On the end, two clients

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-11 Thread Denny Schierz
Am 11.04.2011 um 16:20 schrieb Michael Loftis: Most switches load balance based on MAC addresses, not IP, unless it is routing the traffic as a Layer 3 switch then you can enable IP based load balancing in some of those. Also you might simply be that was the reason, why we disabled the

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-04-11 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Mikolaj Golub troc...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:08:16 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote:  FC Once the deadlock patches above are MFC'd to -STABLE, I can do an  FC upgrade cycle and test them. Committed to STABLE. Updated src tree to r220537.

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-11 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 4/11/2011 12:55 PM, Denny Schierz said this: Am 11.04.2011 um 16:20 schrieb Michael Loftis: Most switches load balance based on MAC addresses, not IP, unless it is routing the traffic as a Layer 3 switch then you can enable IP based load balancing in some of those. Also you might

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-04-11 Thread Mikolaj Golub
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:26:15 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote: FC On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Mikolaj Golub troc...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:08:16 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote:  FC Once the deadlock patches above are MFC'd to -STABLE, I can do an  FC upgrade cycle and test

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-11 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am 11.04.2011 um 20:06 schrieb Tim Daneliuk: Are you certain you are not somehow running active-passive instead of active-active ... just a thought... 150% sure. I used two dedicated NICs WITHOUT any loadbalancing. The sum has to be more than 112MB/s. cu denny ps. I get every answer

Re: powerd / cpufreq question

2011-04-11 Thread Daniel Gerzo
On 11.4.2011 6:08, Ian Smith wrote: As you see, total of differences for each cpu is here 89 ticks, but I've no idea of the interval between your two readings, or your value of HZ? the interval may have been around 1-2 seconds. My value of HZ is default, 1000. Are those kern.cp_times values