From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 22 13:09:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23D416A492 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:09:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (smtp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DDE43D45 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:09:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (tataz.chchile.org [82.233.239.98]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4796A4A20C; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:09:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (unknown [192.168.1.25]) by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403C29B46E; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:09:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 26CF2405B; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:09:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:09:47 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Mike Tancsa Message-ID: <20061122130947.GM20405@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <4557CECD.2000609@samsco.org> <200611130158.kAD1wdKE040908@lava.sentex.ca> <4557EF13.9060305@samsco.org> <200611130454.kAD4sZwe041556@lava.sentex.ca> <4557FF7A.8020704@samsco.org> <200611132054.kADKsFvK045726@lava.sentex.ca> <4558E3DC.6080800@samsco.org> <200611200454.kAK4sdat083568@lava.sentex.ca> <7.1.0.9.0.20061120160757.14d4a728@sentex.net> <200611220247.kAM2l9JP095066@lava.sentex.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200611220247.kAM2l9JP095066@lava.sentex.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:09:47 -0000 Hi Mike, Thank you for spending that much time for benchmarking, this is really interesting. Though this is a little bit off topic, I'm quite puzzled by the fact that having filtering rules on Linux or not doesn't change the result much. NetFitler keeps track of *all* connections even if there are no ruleset loaded -- you don't have to ask for it, so I guess you are simply wiping filtering rules, but you don't disable connection tracking. AFAIK, you can only disable it by either unloading the `conntrack'' module or recompiling the kernel without it, if built in. It would be interesting to know the real performance of Linux as a mere router if we want a true comparision with FreeBSD performances. Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >