Hi, going from #448 (March 16th) to #501 (April 8th), I noticed a sharp drop in performance. The problem manifests itself in the machine frequently becoming very sluggish wrt. network performance. In numbers, this means that the packet loss rate jumps to more than a felt 90% for more than a minute. I didn't find anything in the logs. The machine ran mostly fine using #448 for about two weeks immediately before, using the exact same configuration.
The machine is supposed to move around 10-20 megabits per second across four interfaces, plus handle some 10-20 lightly loaded VPN tunnels, and usually has a CPU utilization roughly between 10 and 50%, maybe 35% on average. For amd64, I have much better experience with #148 from March 30th, although the much more powerful hardware may simply be hiding the problem. I have no good console access to this machine (it's remote), and "playing" is not well supported, either. Below you find the dmesg for the problematic machine, but with the "ok" kernel. -- Kind regards, --Toni++ OpenBSD 4.7 (GENERIC.MP) #448: Wed Mar 10 12:15:21 MST 2010 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.80 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM real mem = 268005376 (255MB) avail mem = 250957824 (239MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 04/02/02, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfb330, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0800 (37 entries) bios0: vendor Award Software International, Inc. version "6.00 PG" date 04/02/2002 bios0: Supermicro P4SBR/P4SBE acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xdf84 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfde90/240 (13 entries) pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 9 10 11 pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82371SB ISA" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #3 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x5600 0xce000/0x1000 0xcf000/0x1000 cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82845 Host" rev 0x04 intelagp0 at pchb0 agp0 at intelagp0: aperture at 0xe4000000, size 0x400000 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82845 AGP" rev 0x04 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA Hub-to-PCI" rev 0x05 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "Intel S21152BB PCI-PCI" rev 0x00 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 ste0 at pci3 dev 4 function 0 "D-Link Systems 550TX" rev 0x15: irq 11, address 00:0d:88:53:23:3c ukphy0 at ste0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 0: OUI 0x0090c3, model 0x0004 ste1 at pci3 dev 5 function 0 "D-Link Systems 550TX" rev 0x15: irq 11, address 00:0d:88:53:23:3d ukphy1 at ste1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 0: OUI 0x0090c3, model 0x0004 ste2 at pci3 dev 6 function 0 "D-Link Systems 550TX" rev 0x15: irq 10, address 00:0d:88:53:23:3e ukphy2 at ste2 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 0: OUI 0x0090c3, model 0x0004 ste3 at pci3 dev 7 function 0 "D-Link Systems 550TX" rev 0x15: irq 11, address 00:0d:88:53:23:3f ukphy3 at ste3 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 0: OUI 0x0090c3, model 0x0004 ahc0 at pci2 dev 5 function 0 "Adaptec AIC-7899 U160" rev 0x01: irq 10 scsibus0 at ahc0: 16 targets, initiator 7 sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <FUJITSU, MAN3184MC, 0109> SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd0: 17522MB, 512 bytes/sec, 35885448 sec total ahc1 at pci2 dev 5 function 1 "Adaptec AIC-7899 U160" rev 0x01: irq 11 scsibus1 at ahc1: 16 targets, initiator 7 fxp0 at pci2 dev 6 function 0 "Intel 8255x" rev 0x08, i82559: irq 9, address 00:30:48:51:58:54 inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 PHY, rev. 4 fxp1 at pci2 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 8255x" rev 0x08, i82559: irq 5, address 00:30:48:51:58:55 inphy1 at fxp1 phy 1: i82555 10/100 PHY, rev. 4 vga1 at pci2 dev 8 function 0 "ATI Rage XL" rev 0x27 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801BA LPC" rev 0x05: 24-bit timer at 3579545Hz pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801BA IDE" rev 0x05: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility pciide0: channel 0 disabled (no drives) atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus2 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus2 targ 0 lun 0: <MATSHITA, CD-ROM CR-177, 7T0D> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 uhci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801BA USB" rev 0x05: irq 10 ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801BA SMBus" rev 0x05: irq 11 iic0 at ichiic0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 256MB SDRAM non-parity PC133CL2 uhci1 at pci0 dev 31 function 4 "Intel 82801BA USB" rev 0x05: irq 11 isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 wbsio0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: W83627HF rev 0x17 lm1 at wbsio0 port 0x290/8: W83627HF npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 biomask ed45 netmask ef65 ttymask ffff mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support vscsi0 at root scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root ahc0: target 0 using 16bit transfers ahc0: target 0 synchronous at 80.0MHz DT, offset = 0x7f root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b