2.0-RC1 (amd64) built on Tue Mar 1 15:52:28 EST 2011 Core i3 550 3.2 GHz 4GB RAM Intel GBE
I've just set this system up doing some crude throughput testing with iperf. The most I can push through this box from LAN to WAN is a steady 503-520 mbps, using the default mtu (higher mtu values produce no throughput on iperf for reasons I haven't looked into. I'm suspecting no support in the switch). top -SH is showing ~25% interrupt usage and 30%+ idle on both cores. Hyperthreading is disabled. I'm using a single NIC with vlans, but testing in only one direction, so the NIC is sending and receiving a total of about 530 mbit x2 during the test. iperf test machines show minimal CPU usage during the test, and have no other significant network activity happening concurrently. The switch is a Netgear ProSafe GS108E, which is ostensibly non-blocking. I expected better throughput than that. Any ideas what is holding this thing back, or where I could look to find out? Thanks, db --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
