On 2020-10-17, Aisha Tammy <openbsd.m...@aisha.cc> wrote: > On 10/15/20 5:52 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2020-10-14, Rafael Possamai <raf...@thinkpad.io> wrote: >>>> I'm supporting a small business who needs more bandwidth due to the >>>> work-from-home >situation. They've asked me to help them do the upgrade to >>>> 10Gbe. I'd preferto keep them on an >OpenBSD router, since I love how >>>> liuttle maintenance it needs, but I can't find any accounts of >someone >>>> actually managing to get close to line speed above 1 Gbe. >>>> >>>> I don't want to just buy expensive hardware and hope that it works. Has >>>> anyone here been able >to get close to 10 Gb/s networking with OpenBSD? I >>>> don't need to be able to have more than a >few pf-rules. >>> >>> There is a talk on YouTube about using a few OpenBSD boxes with 10gb, maybe >>> this helps somewhat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veqKM4bHesM >> >> 10Gb ports work fine, passing full 10Gb of traffic on those ports not so >> much, and we're nowhere near passing 10Gb of small size packets. (the >> limit is more to do with packets per second than speed). >> >> "do the upgrade to 10GbE" isn't specific enough as to what's needed to be >> able to give much usrful advice. >> >> >> > Is there anything non technical that users can help with? > I know donating hardware is one but I don't know if thats what is needed > in this case?
Testing diffs, especially those related to kernel locking, and reporting back on them can help. Running -current, updating fairly often, and reporting on problems seen (with a good date window for when they were first seen, or even better bisecting to the individual commit if possible) can be useful too.
