Hi, As we know, the NICDrv test results are affected by the test server resources and OS version. After doing lots of tests using NICDrv0915 test suite, I would like to make some suggestions.
1. Number of VLANs in test08 For drivers running on OpenSolaris, the default number of vlans is 1024 which is reduced from 4094 in the previous version of NICDrv test suite. But 1094 is good for servers with around 8G memory. My suggestions are: 4G - 512 8G - 1024 .... If testing 1024 vlans on a server with 4G memory, almost all NIC drivers will fail or system hang. 2. Number of nfs udp sessions in test03 Do not run more than 20 sessions in nfs udp corrupt test. This is not due to need of more resources, it is more like a limitation of Solaris OS. Even if driver does not drop packets, OS will. Thus the test will fail. See http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=113125&tstart=0 Before BUG 6559232 is fixed on the OS side, it is quite difficult to reliably pass test03 with 20 udp sessions running even on a new Sparc server with 64G memory. Tom -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
