Intel Server Adapters (NICs)

2006-10-23 Thread Sylwester S. Biernacki
Hello, about a month ago I wrote I'm glad about em(4) driver which works pretty well on few of my boxes. However I need to change my opinion... after what I saw today in the lab: We have connected pretty well testing box - Navtel InterWatch (www.navtelcom.com). It has one 6 slots and

Re: Intel Server Adapters (NICs)

2006-10-23 Thread Per-Olov Sjöholm
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 00:00, Sylwester S. Biernacki wrote: > Hello, > > about a month ago I wrote I'm glad about em(4) driver which works > pretty well on few of my boxes. However I need to change my > opinion... after what I saw today in the lab: > > We have connected pretty well test

Re: Intel Server Adapters (NICs)

2006-10-23 Thread Berk D. Demir
Sylwester S. Biernacki wrote: Hello, about a month ago I wrote I'm glad about em(4) driver which works pretty well on few of my boxes. However I need to change my opinion... after what I saw today in the lab: > [ ... cut ... ] I wanted to reply relevant sections but your message is quite

Re: Intel Server Adapters (NICs)

2006-10-23 Thread Berk D. Demir
Per-Olov Sjvholm wrote: I have read that people have tested with *very* high load with success... I am not the best expertbut you don't say anything about the OpenBSD config. At high load you probably have to change net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen, kern.maxclusters, net.inet.tcp.recvspace, net.ine

Re: Intel Server Adapters (NICs)

2006-10-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/24 00:45, Per-Olov Sjvholm wrote: > > pf is disabled, between em0 and em1 whole traffic goes through > > kernel routing process (Navtel port A and em0 in one /24 network, > > and em1 and Navtel port B are in different /24 network) > > > > sysctl tcp.send & receive space is turned

Re: Intel Server Adapters (NICs) more questions, no answers

2006-10-23 Thread Dag Richards
Berk D. Demir wrote: Per-Olov Sjvholm wrote: I have read that people have tested with *very* high load with success... I am not the best expertbut you don't say anything about the OpenBSD config. At high load you probably have to change net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen, kern.maxclusters, net.inet.

Re: Intel Server Adapters (NICs) more questions, no answers

2006-10-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/23 17:15, Dag Richards wrote: > >MP makes possible to use I/O APICs so offloads the interrupt load from > >CPU. It can be big plus. > > Makes possible? Erm by magic? no, by the line in the kernel config file that starts "ioapic*"

Re: Intel Server Adapters (NICs) more questions, no answers

2006-10-24 Thread Berk D. Demir
Dag Richards wrote: Makes possible? Erm by magic? Will running that kernel ... well Um I'd like to buy another clue please Vanna. Ok. There you go. src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC.MP # $OpenBSD: GENERIC.MP,v 1.5 2005/05/01 07:54:42 david Exp $ # # GENERIC.MP - sample multiprocess