Re: Performance problem using Intel X520-DA2

2012-01-23 Thread Vlad Galu
-- Good, fast and cheap: pick any two. On Monday, January 23, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Marcin Markowski wrote: > Hello, > > We use FreeBSD as sniffer (libpcap programs) and we experience > performance problems when incoming traffic is greater than 7.5Gbps/s. > If we check 'top' we see that first irq

Re: Performance problem using Intel X520-DA2

2012-01-23 Thread Marcin Markowski
Hi Jack, Thank You for Your answer. I forgot to mention that if the program will run for more than 30-40 sec. server loses connection to the internet. I'm not sure if problem isnt with MSI-X, because NIC (82575EB - igb driver) used for the internet is also using MSI-X. Disabling MSI-X for i

Re: Performance problem using Intel X520-DA2

2012-01-23 Thread Jack Vogel
There may be some interrupt handling changes coming, but at least for the moment you need to increase the storm threshold, or set it to 0 to disable it. Jack On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Marcin Markowski wrote: > Hello, > > We use FreeBSD as sniffer (libpcap programs) and we experience >

Performance problem using Intel X520-DA2

2012-01-23 Thread Marcin Markowski
Hello, We use FreeBSD as sniffer (libpcap programs) and we experience performance problems when incoming traffic is greater than 7.5Gbps/s. If we check 'top' we see that first irq from network card is using 100% CPU. I've tested this on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE (on 9.0 we can see also