Re: FreeBSD TCP tuning and performance

2009-12-10 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Steven Hartland wrote: > What are your iperf command lines? using FreeBSD RELENG_8 amd64 on a low traffic dell 5224 switch I was able to see these results, and I don't see a problem wile running iperf I brought up top -P on my desktop machine here is what it said

Re: FreeBSD TCP tuning and performance

2009-12-10 Thread Steven Hartland
What are your iperf command lines? A standard iperf cmd line won't give line rate, the ones we use here are:- == Server == iperf -s -w 2.5M -l 2.5M == Client == iperf -i 10 -t 20 -c -w 2.5M -l 2.5M == Tuning == We use the following tuning on our machines to achieve line rate Gig on 7.0 amd64 n

RE: FreeBSD TCP tuning and performance

2009-12-10 Thread Noisex
This server is basically used for bandwidth testing (Our company is internet service provider) and we need and our clients something to measure a internet speed. Actually on that server is hosted MyConnection SpeedServer (http://www.visualware.com/) for bandwidth tests. Some month ago we starte

Re: FreeBSD TCP tuning and performance

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Noisex" : > Hi! I have a problem with TCP performance on FBSD boxes with 1Gbps net > i-faces (Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2)). Currently i use FBSD > 7.1 AMD64. > > The test lab: 2 x (server-client) HP Proliant G5 DL360 (quad-core/8gb ram, > raid 5 SAS). > > For

Re: FreeBSD TCP tuning and performance

2009-12-10 Thread Steven Hartland
What app are you using there and is it setting the send / receive buffers correctly? - Original Message - From: "Noisex" To: Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 12:41 PM Subject: FreeBSD TCP tuning and performance Hi! I have a problem with TCP performance on FBSD boxes with 1Gbps net i

FreeBSD TCP tuning and performance

2009-12-10 Thread Noisex
Hi! I have a problem with TCP performance on FBSD boxes with 1Gbps net i-faces (Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2)). Currently i use FBSD 7.1 AMD64. The test lab: 2 x (server-client) HP Proliant G5 DL360 (quad-core/8gb ram, raid 5 SAS). For net benchmark i used nuttcp and iperf. The