On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Lenny <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm kind of desperate here, so please try to help me.
>
> Here's my problem:
>
> I have a setup in production (a very dynamic website).
>
> It consists of pfsense-->Alteon Load Balancer-->IBM Bladecenter(with a
> Squids cluster on it).
>
> pfsense is installed on IBM x335 with 2 Xeon 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, and Dual Intel
> NIC PCI-X 1Gb.
>
> I'm connected with 1Gb to the ISP.
>
> The problem is that no matter what I do, I can't get more than 15kpps.
>
> After that I start to get a lot of packet loss.

Check sysctl net.inet.ip.intr_queue_drops and raise
net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen if it's non-zero.

Also check net.isr.drop.

The intel driver has some debugging also under the dev.em sysctl I believe.
--Bill

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