On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 12:36:07PM -0700, Daren Sefcik wrote: > > > > > > Interesting, so maybe in fact you're running on cards with an old horrible > > firmware like what I described in the previous e-mail. > > > > Possible I suppose but these are brand new Dell systems, just got them a > few a weeks ago. Any advice on how to check and I will do so.
I don't know how you can do on FreeBSD. On Linux you check with ethtool -i. The worst versions of the chips reported firmware 1.9.6, though several more recent ones still had problems but not *that* important. > > Maybe your client is experiencing the same issue if it runs on similar > > hardware. Do not hesitate to do "pfctl -d" as suggested by someone (maybe > > Joris, I don't remember). It used to help a lot on openbsd in the past for > > similar reasons as conntrack on linux (session table full). At least you'll > > know. > > > > My ab tests are run from a separate server on the lan, they are not from my > client. When the ab tests are finished my client responds quickly again. > BTW, my client is a Mac PB running Linux Mint. OK but I mean the other server might be suffering from similar issues if it runs on similar hardware. > Disabling the firewall has no effect, the response times stay the same. OK. Willy
