Is there anything happening on the serial console? I'm in a totally
different environment but find that any output on the serial is a
killer on other interrupts. With nothing happening on the serial I
can comfortably sustain ~64mbs (UDP, 32 in, 32 out).

- Don

On 6/29/2007 at 11:50 AM Jonathon Exley wrote:

>Is anyone out there using iperf to test Ethernet circuits on a 4801?
>I find that I can't do bidirectional UDP tests above 4Mbit/s for
>prolonged periods (like 900s).
>The test runs ok for a while and then I get bursts of packet loss every
>60s or so.
>I'm running Debian Sarge with a custom compiled 2.6.20.1 kernel as per
>Brix Andersen's paper.
>For some reason the Debian 2.6.8 kernel performs better - 10Mbit/s for
>900s is ok, at 20Mbit/s I start getting errors.
>Maybe it's a feature of 2.6.20.1? or perhaps the interrrupt algorithm I
>chose (CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="anticipatory").
>What sort of rates can other people get out of iperf?
>The command I used was: iperf -c <host> -u -d -i5 -b4m -t900
> 
>Jonathon 


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