On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:12:09 +0100 Claudio Jeker <cje...@diehard.n-r-g.com> wrote:
>| On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:11:13AM +0100, Manuel Guesdon wrote: >| > On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 00:51:46 +0000 (UTC) >| > Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: >| > >| > >| On 2011-02-28, Manuel Guesdon <ml+openbsd.m...@oxymium.net> wrote: >| > >| > http://www.oxymium.net/tmp/core3-dmesg >| > >| >| > >| "ipmi0 at mainbus0: version 2.0 interface KCS iobase 0xca2/2 spacing 1" >| > >| >| > >| ipmi is disabled in GENERIC. have you tried without it? >| > >| > Not on this server (I can't reboot it often) but on another one with same >| > hardware: it doesn't seems to make difference (it still have Ierr). >| > >| >| This diff will help.</sarcasm> Of course and s/OpenBSD/FreeBSD/ may help too but none of these proposals seems very constructive. >| I think we already mentioned it that you will always see Ierr. The >| question is if the box is able to forward more then 150kpps. Yes that's one a the questions. We can divide it into 3 questions: 1) is the limitation comes from hardware ? 2) is the limitation comes from OpenBSD ? 3) is the limitation comes from the way OpenBSD exploit hardware. 1) Except if someone explain by a+b why the hardware can't forward this rate, I'm keep thinking it can do it (otherwise I don't see reason to sell quad 1Gbps nic). I'm ok to hear that I've purchased crappy motherboard card or nic (but I'd like to understand why they are crappy). The last 2 questions are still open in my mind. I've spent days and days making tests, searches, reading kernel source code and so on because I think it's interesting for the community to find where the problem come from and how to solve it (if possible). If finally the answer is that OpenBSD (or may be any other OS) can't forward more than 150kpps without losing 1 to 20 pps with this hardware, I'll live with it. But as we've already seen that increasing int/s improve performances (for good or bad reason), I keep thinking there's something to improve or fix but I may be wrong. Anyway, thank you for your work and help. Manuel -- ______________________________________________________________________ Manuel Guesdon - OXYMIUM
