At 12:30 PM 1/30/2007, Jack Vogel wrote:
Performance tuning is not something that I have yet had time to focus
on, our Linux team is able to do a lot more of that. Just at a glance,
try increasing your mbuf pool size and the number of receive descriptors
for a start.
OK, I setup a test box the pass packets through and I am getting
results I dont understand. Increasing hw.em.rxd in loader.conf (and
rebooting each time), I am getting worse results.
With hw.em.rxd=4096
Jan 30 17:19:10 em-test kernel: em0: Receive No Buffers = 5707564
With hw.em.rxd=1024
Jan 30 17:22:31 em-test kernel: em0: Receive No Buffers = 351
With hw.em.rxd=512
Jan 30 17:27:24 em-test kernel: em0: Receive No Buffers = 230
with default 256
Jan 30 16:55:44 em-test kernel: em0: Receive No Buffers = 77
with 128, its gets much worse. This is with a stock UP kernel, no
INET6, net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1
Box A ------Box B (with dual Intel NIC) ----- Box C
Box A is generating packets routed through firewall Box B towards Box
C. They are connected together with 2 cross over cables.
Oh, and try increasing your processing limit to 200 and see
what effect that has.
I will try that next.
---Mike
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