Hi all,
I'm waiting for the 5.2 to reinstall my routers/firewalls and see if things
on my hardware improved.
I'll also disable MP; how about 386 vs amd64? Is there any difference in
terms of speed in managing interrupt and forwarding traffic? I've found a
post from Henning telling that 386 is much better for routing/firewalling
but it was 5-6 years ago and I'm sure things changed a lot
Thanks for your help, can't wait to see my 5.2 cd on my desk :)
Alessandro
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:31 PM, noah pugsley <noah.pugs...@gmail.com>wrote:
> What is your performance like with -current and no knob twisting?
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:45 AM, rik <rikc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm a happy Openbsd "user"; we've beeing using it since 2001 as
>> router/firewall in our datacenter facility (we host as ONG some no profit
>> project and website).
>> At the moment we're using a couple of SuperMicro with the following specs:
>> OpenBSD 5.0 (GENERIC.MP) #59: Wed Aug 17 10:19:44 MDT 2011
>> dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
>> cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.98
>> GHz
>> cpu0:
>>
>> FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,
>> MWAIT,DS-CPL,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR,PDCM
>> real mem = 3890663424 (3710MB)
>> avail mem = 3816964096 (3640MB)
>> ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 4 "Intel 82801G PCIE" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 17
>> em0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82573E)" rev 0x03: msi,
>> address 00:30:xx:xx:xx:xx
>> ppb4 at pci0 dev 28 function 5 "Intel 82801G PCIE" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 16
>> em1 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82573L)" rev 0x00: msi,
>> address 00:30:xx:xx:xx:xx
>>
>> the netcard are on-board.
>> Unfortunately we're a bit straggling with the performances as we have
>> almost 100% interrupt with 110Mbps and 12k pps
>> We've already increased net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen to 500 in order to avoid
>> packet loss and also disabling pf has no influence.
>> Do you think these performances are fair and we have to upgrade to better
>> hardware to have higher pps and Mpbs?
>> Beside trying to upgrade to the last stable and not use MP we have no idea
>> how to procede
>> Thanks for your help
>> Alessandro
