It's hard to saturate a 1Gbps connection. I usually use 1 computer I know that can do it, cross connect it with the other, and use a traffic generator like ttcp to test it out.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Mike Borowiec <mik...@wideopenwest.com>wrote: > Both problems are now solved... > > Evidently there was a problem with BIOS settings (tho I don't recall > changing anything). I confirmed it wasn't an OS configuration issue by > booting the OpenIndiana live CD and still saw only one core. I reset to > BIOS failsafe defaults, and now see both CPU cores. Thanks Garrett! > root@toybox:~ > psrinfo -vp > The physical processor has 2 virtual processors (0 1) > > x86 (AuthenticAMD 40F33 family 15 model 67 step 3 clock 2793 MHz) > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ [ Socket: AM2 ] > > > Added "default_mtu=9000;" to bge.conf, and jumbo frames now work. Thanks > Volker! > bge0: flags=1000943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 9000 > index 3 > > I feel like I should be getting ~100 MB/s via gigabit like I used to, but > it's still below 50 MB/s. I'll keep picking away at it... > > Thanks to all who responded! > > Regards, > mikebo > > > On 2/26/2012 12:23 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > Just a theory: > > I suspect a BIOS change was made, which perhaps caused one or more of the > tables in ACPI to be reported differently to the host OS. > > I'd go back and review all your BIOS settings. > > ... > > On 2/26/2012 1:56 PM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > > Hi Mike! > > > > /kernel/drv/bge.conf. However, there didn't seem to be any > MaxFrameSize or other obvious things to modify in the driver > configuration file. [...] > > The man page for bge in Solaris 10 says to set the variable like so: > > default_mtu=9000; > > Have you tried that? I would be surprised if it were any different > in Illumos. > > > Regards -- Volker > > *illumos-discuss* | > Archives<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175508-bab5da21> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
