Re: FBSD 1GBit router?

2008-02-25 Thread Chris Knight
What kind of network cards are you using, and what bus type are they using? >From my experience, I was never able to get over ~300Mbps routing from one PCI-X NIC to another PCI-X NIC. I switched out the bus to a PCI-Express and put a couple of Intel PCI-E 4x gigabit cards in and I was able to get

Re: FBSD 1GBit router?

2008-02-25 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Kevin, I upgrade to 7.0RC3 but still the same. 418Mbit is the roof. older fbsd's are faster than newer. How are the nic's connected to the cpu? lspci -v V7 is not (in my experience) slower than V4, v5, or v6. v6 is at least slower than v4. http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html (look at t

Re: FBSD 1GBit router?

2008-02-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:05:18 +0100 (CET) > From: Ingo Flaschberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > >> ZB> - upgrade at least to 6.3. upgrading to 7.0 might also be better, > >> depending > >> ZB> on hardware choices > >> ZB> - ensure your ethernet cards are on f

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-02-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chris wrote: * 7.0 with ULE has a bug on this workload (actually to do with workloads involving high interrupt rates). It is fixed in 8.0. Kris can you say anything more about interrupt workload bugs on ULE? On all my 7.0 servers I now am using ULE even on the UP ones as it was said there is s

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-02-25 Thread Chris
> > * 7.0 with ULE has a bug on this workload (actually to do with workloads > involving high interrupt rates). It is fixed in 8.0. Kris can you say anything more about interrupt workload bugs on ULE? On all my 7.0 servers I now am using ULE even on the UP ones as it was said there is slight impr

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-02-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
Oliver Herold wrote: Hi, I saw this bind benchmarks just some minutes ago, http://new.isc.org/proj/dnsperf/OStest.html is this true for FreeBSD 7 (current state: RELENG_7/7.0R) too? Or is this something verified only for the state of development back in August 2007? I have been trying to rep

Re: FBSD 1GBit router?

2008-02-25 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Hi, ZB> - upgrade at least to 6.3. upgrading to 7.0 might also be better, depending ZB> on hardware choices ZB> - ensure your ethernet cards are on fast enough busses. 'em' (Intel Ether ZB> Express 1000) flavor ports are my personal favorite ZB> - enable polling (this will make a _huge_ dif

Re: FBSD 1GBit router?

2008-02-25 Thread Daniel Dias Gonçalves
Bc. Radek Krejca escreveu: Hi, ZB> - upgrade at least to 6.3. upgrading to 7.0 might also be better, depending ZB> on hardware choices ZB> - ensure your ethernet cards are on fast enough busses. 'em' (Intel Ether ZB> Express 1000) flavor ports are my personal favorite ZB> - enable polling (thi