Yes, the fact is that these settings do not work. Perhaps these can only be set 
via ndd.

> ScottWilliamson writes:
> > set ndd:tcp_naglim_def=1
> > set ndd:udp_recv_hiwat=4000000

Also after recalculation of the bandwidth delay product the value of 
*_[recv/xmit]_hiwat is an order of magnitude too high, so I have reduced them 
to 400000.

> Where is the 'ndd' module in the Solaris kernel?  Do
> these settings
> actually work?
> 
> > The output of intrstat shows that the ixgb
> interrupts are always landing on the same cpu. Does
> anyone have any tips to help tune this link for
> higher transfer speeds and if/how to tune the ixgb
> interrupt moderation and/or type as well as the ring
> buffers for this card?
> 
> There are a handful of parameters that can be set in
> /kernel/drv/ixgb.conf to tune behavior, but I'd
> suggest first going
> back to the person who gave you that rather large
> list of /etc/system
> tunables, and ask whether they're correct for the
> systems you have.
> 
> They look suspicious to me.

I have tried measurements with netperf (rather than netcat) and see acceptiable 
results, I now suspect that netcat is not the best way to send a stream.

Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^9bits/sec

400000 400000 400000    10.52       5.40
 
 
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