Re: Network Slowness Proliant DL380 G4

2008-02-07 Thread Joe Warren-Meeks
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:19:03PM +0100, Pete Vickers wrote: Hey there, OpenBSD's bge driver sucks big time, typical symptoms are very slow transfers, and incrementing errors (netstat -i). You can confirm this by booting $other_os_boot_cd and retesting. Ah, I was unaware of this. I've got

Re: Network Slowness Proliant DL380 G4

2008-02-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/07 15:41, Joe Warren-Meeks wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:04:13PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: Hey there, recvspace and sendspace do *nothing* to packet-forwarding performance. they affect only locally sourced/sinked traffic. Ah yes, of course. So, is there anything I

Re: Network Slowness Proliant DL380 G4

2008-02-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/07 11:08, Joe Warren-Meeks wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:19:03PM +0100, Pete Vickers wrote: Hey there, OpenBSD's bge driver sucks big time, typical symptoms are very slow transfers, and incrementing errors (netstat -i). You can confirm this by booting $other_os_boot_cd

Re: Network Slowness Proliant DL380 G4

2008-02-07 Thread Joe Warren-Meeks
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:04:13PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: Hey there, recvspace and sendspace do *nothing* to packet-forwarding performance. they affect only locally sourced/sinked traffic. Ah yes, of course. So, is there anything I can do, or need to do, to ensure good throughput? Or

Re: Network Slowness Proliant DL380 G4

2008-02-07 Thread rezidue
I believe I had this same problem when I was compiling the source offered on iperf's site. This was resolved by compiling the version offered by ports. On Feb 7, 2008 5:08 AM, Joe Warren-Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:19:03PM +0100, Pete Vickers wrote: Hey there,

Re: Network Slowness Proliant DL380 G4

2008-02-07 Thread Tom Van Looy
I also have this nic in my Lenovo R60: bge0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 Broadcom BCM5751M rev 0x21, BCM5750 C1 (0x4201): irq 11, address 00:16:d3:b8:d6:4c experiencing the same problems Joe Warren-Meeks wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:04:13PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: Hey there,

Network Slowness Proliant DL380 G4

2008-02-06 Thread Mark Parsons
Greetings, It appears that I am having some major slowness issues on a HP Proliant DL380G4 after a fresh install of OpenBSD 4.2 i386 single processor kernel When running a iperf (http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/) test to a Linux host on the same physical subnet on the same physical switch

Re: Network Slowness Proliant DL380 G4

2008-02-06 Thread Pete Vickers
OpenBSD's bge driver sucks big time, typical symptoms are very slow transfers, and incrementing errors (netstat -i). You can confirm this by booting $other_os_boot_cd and retesting. /Pete On 6 Feb 2008, at 6:33 PM, Mark Parsons wrote: Greetings, It appears that I am having some major

Re: Network Slowness Proliant DL380 G4

2008-02-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/06 19:19, Pete Vickers wrote: OpenBSD's bge driver sucks big time, typical symptoms are very slow transfers, and incrementing errors (netstat -i). the Ierrs are only on some bge chips (BCM5704C is the most common one), but it does totally suck if you try and run OSPF on them.