Darren Thanks a lot for your response. Can you advice what and how I shall check on OS side to confirm that pfil performance is optimal ?
Also do you find DEBUG options possible cause of the problem as stated by Andrew ? With best regards Martynas -----Original Message----- From: Darren Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:51 AM To: Buozis, Martynas Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: pfil and network performance Buozis, Martynas wrote: > Hello > > I am running IPFilter installation on Solaris 8 (Generic_117350-41). > PFIL version is 2.1.11,REV=10:54:27 11/16/06. > > We noticed, that PFIL is causing big impact to network performance even > when IPFilter is stopped (just PFIL is loaded) and no rules are present. > 2GB file copy from NFS server took 35 minutes with PFIL loaded, while > without PFIL only 3 minutes were required to copy same file. > > Can somebody advice were problem is with PFIL ? > It shouldn't cause performance to drop this much...sounds like something is going wrong. The pfil module will stop any performance improvements due to hardware features such as checksum offload being activated. Darren
