Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread Michael Vince
I use netperf which is a pure network traffic tester I also just use basic 'ab/apache' tests which would also test HD/IO if getting large files. For the 'em' driver I have seen some posts/cvs commit updates to the driver saying it now works better without polling then with polling. I think this

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread Jin Guojun [VFFS]
OxY wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jin Guojun (VFFS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OxY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:46 AM Subject: Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit OxY wrote: CPU utilization is 0% i

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, OxY wrote: Hi, Just on a hunch, can you try putting the card in a different PCI slot? There may be interrupt routing issues. okay, i will try it in a couple days the card also has a sysctl for intr moderation. See man 4 sk. The default changed with Pyun's updated driv

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread OxY
i changed sk to em. how could i measure speed or benchmark the network performance? - Original Message - From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OxY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 7:26 PM Subject: Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread Kevin Day
On Mar 18, 2006, at 5:44 AM, OxY wrote: hi! i had the packet drop problem with the marwell yukon gigabitcard: (system is an amd 2000+xp, 512mb ram, fbsd 6.0-p5) when the apache ran, with no http, just used to share files and the traffic was 2-2,5MB/S i had 14-17% packet drop on the gigabi

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread OxY
okay, i will try it in a couple days - Original Message - From: "Kevin Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OxY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 5:52 PM Subject: Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit On Mar 18, 2006, at 5:44 AM, OxY wrote: hi! i ha

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread Stanislaw Halik
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006, OxY wrote: > i increased hz from 2000 to 5000, now the packet loss is decreased > from 5-6% to 0.6-0,8% !!! > huge improve! > should i increase hz more? won't increasing HZ over 1000 break TCP support? from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on freebsd-pf@: #v+ > So it's not that far off,

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread Jin Guojun (VFFS)
OxY wrote: CPU utilization is 0% if apache is not running and 10-20%, when running and serving 30-40 concurrent downloads (traffic is 3-4MB/s on fxp0 interface) Is the number 3-4MB/s for per stream or the total for all 30-40 streams? Are these downloads sent to a disk? i measured the networ

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread OxY
- Original Message - From: "Sten Spans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arne Woerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "OxY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 1:56 PM Subject: Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Arne Woerner wrote: --- OxY <[EMA

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread Sten Spans
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Arne Woerner wrote: --- OxY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but the udp drop came out (10-15%) when i stopped apache (all tcp traffic) and initiated a local disk-to-disk file copy to make some load. Ok... That lets my idea look wrong... :-)) Then it might be the main board

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread OxY
# with apache running: Field root# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes transferred in 2.626162 secs (399280768 bytes/sec) #without apache: Field root# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread Arne Woerner
--- OxY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but the udp drop came out (10-15%) when i stopped apache (all > tcp traffic) and initiated a local disk-to-disk file copy to make some > load. > Ok... That lets my idea look wrong... :-)) Then it might be the main board like somebody else wrote some minutes ag

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread OxY
but the udp drop came out (10-15%) when i stopped apache (all tcp traffic) and initiated a local disk-to-disk file copy to make some load. - Original Message - From: "Arne Woerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OxY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 1:25 PM Subject: Re: p

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread Arne Woerner
--- OxY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have an ABIT BE7 > (http://www.abit.com.tw/page/uk/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=BE7&fMTYPE=Socket%20478&pPRODINFO=Specifications) > resting somewhere, could it improve the network performance > with a P4-2.4GHZ(533FSB)? > Maybe some udp pack

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread OxY
- Original Message - From: "Jin Guojun (VFFS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OxY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:46 AM Subject: Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit OxY wrote: CPU utilization is 0% if apache is

Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

2006-03-19 Thread OxY
CPU utilization is 0% if apache is not running and 10-20%, when running and serving 30-40 concurrent downloads (traffic is 3-4MB/s on fxp0 interface) i measured the network performance with 'iperf' util, started the server on my box and benchmarked with a client on the other gigabit machine. it