At 04:10 PM 7/2/99 -0500, Stan Shkolnyy wrote: >On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: > >> >> I have a customer who has been experiencing "slow downs" with a freebsd >> router....they have substantially increased performance by reducing >> MINCLSIZE. I havent tracked the source, but im trying to hypothesize what >> it might be. On the surface I cant see any relationship since very few >> routines seem dependent on that value (m_devget() in particular, but I dont >> believe they are using any driver that use it). Is it possible that they >> are running out of small mbufs (they have NMBCLUSTERS set to a very high >> value)? >> >> Any ideas would be helpful. > >I have not noticed answers so far, so maybe their drivers copy mbufs very >often. AFAIK, "small" mbufs are indeed copied but "cluster" ones are not, so >when they forced the system to use more "cluster" mbufs, they got >substantial savings on copy operations.
Well they are using Intel cards and our sync boards (of course our driver is binary so the change wouldnt effect our driver), and I dont see the fxp driver using small buffers. They are running bgp4...but I dont know what kind of buffers are used for routes. Dennis > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
