Hello Mitja,
My bad, that is indeed a 6501-30. The subject of the mail and the tests I
ran are not matching.
Thanks a lot for the clarification to point out that 6501-30 has no
Enhanced SpeedStep feature.
Regards
Josh
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Mitja Muženič <mi...@muzenic.net> wrote:
> From your dmesg:
>
> cpu0: Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 600MHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 601 MHz
> ...
> real mem = 536260608 (511MB)
>
>
> What you have is not a Soekris net6501-70 as you claim in the subject, but
> a Soekris 6501-30. The 512MB ram and 600MHz CPU are the giveaways. The
> 600MHz CPU has no Enhanced SpeedStep feature and therefore there is no
> hw.setperf - you can't change the CPU frequency on this unit.
>
>
> In comparison, the relevant lines on a 6501-50 are
>
> cpu0: Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 1.00GHz, 1000.17 MHz
> ...
> real mem = 1072562176 (1022MB)
> ...
> cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1000 MHz: speeds: 1000, 600 MHz
>
> and here sysctl hw.setperf works with OpenBSD 5.2 out-of-the-box.
>
>
> My 6501-70 is not at hand, but looks almost identical to 6501-50, only
> with 2GB of ram and an additional 1600MHz speed available.
>
> Regards, Mitja
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: soekris-tech-boun...@lists.soekris.com [mailto:soekris-tech-
> > boun...@lists.soekris.com] On Behalf Of Josh
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 11:26 AM
> > To: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com
> > Cc: Mitja Muženič; Stuart Henderson
> > Subject: Re: [Soekris] Soekris 6501-70 / 6501-50 Network Throughput
> > under Debian / OpenBSD
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Installed OpenBSD 5.2 release version i386.
> > # uname -a
> > OpenBSD soekris.my.domain 5.2 GENERIC.MP#339 i386
> > # sysctl hw.setperf=100
> > sysctl: hw.setperf: value is not available
> >
> > a man sysctl shows that the hw.setperf option is available. Is there
> > something to "enable" it?
> >
> > dmesg attached.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Mitja Muženič <mi...@muzenic.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Thank you for providing the dmesg, it would be very hard to reply
> > without it.
> >
> > You are running OpenBSD 5.1-release that was frozen on March 12th
> > 2012. Unfortunately the setperf code in OpenBSD only recognized the
> > Atom E660 chip used in net6501 a week later, on March 18th 2012, so 5.1
> > doesn't support setting it on net6501. Your best bet is to use a -
> > current snapshot until 5.2 is released in November.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: soekris-tech-boun...@lists.soekris.com [mailto:soekris-
> > tech-
> >
> > > boun...@lists.soekris.com] On Behalf Of Josh
> > > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 6:16 AM
> > > To: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com
> > > Cc: Mitja Muženič; Stuart Henderson
> > > Subject: Re: [Soekris] Soekris 6501-70 / 6501-50 Network
> > Throughput
> > > under Debian / OpenBSD
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > I have difficulties getting the command to work:
> > > soekris~# sysctl hw.setperf=100
> > > sysctl: hw.setperf: value is not available
> > >
> > > Running GENERIC.MP i386 on soekris 6501-70 (attached is a
> > dmesg)
> > >
> > > Have you modified the kernel to get hw.setperf option?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:33 PM, David Coppa <dco...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Mitja Muženič
> > <mi...@muzenic.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > > >>> From: soekris-tech-boun...@lists.soekris.com
> > [mailto:soekris-tech-
> > > >>> boun...@lists.soekris.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Henderson
> > > >>> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 1:21 PM
> > > >>> To: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com
> > > >>> Subject: Re: [Soekris] Soekris 6501-70 / 6501-50 Network
> > Throughput
> > > >>> under Debian / OpenBSD
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Replying to an old(ish) post.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> On 2011-12-14, Josh <mylis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>> > Is there any way to improve the network throughput under
> > OpenBSD?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Some more information came to light...
> > > >>> Here's a workaround until it can be fixed:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> sysctl hw.setperf=0
> > > >>> sysctl hw.setperf=100
> > > >>
> > > >> Actually just the latter one is enough:
> > > >>
> > > >> echo "sysctl hw.setperf=100" >> /etc/rc.local
> > > >
> > > > Or "hw.setperf=100" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
> > > >
> > > > ciao,
> > > > david
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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