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Date:      Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:08:15 +0100
From:      Emanuel Strobl <emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Boris Spirialitious <hardcodeharry@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: AMD64 very slow!
Message-ID:  <200503230608.29147@harrymail>
In-Reply-To: <20050323001948.72519.qmail@web90203.mail.scd.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050323001948.72519.qmail@web90203.mail.scd.yahoo.com>

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Am Mittwoch, 23. M=E4rz 2005 01:19 schrieb Boris Spirialitious:
> -- Emanuel Strobl <emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> wrote:
>  Am Mittwoch, 23. M=E4rz 2005 00:38 schrieb Boris
>
> > Spirialitious:
> > > I have opteron 246 system with 2 port intel em
> > > card. We have test bed with about 200Kbs traffic
> > > and we route through 5.3/i386 system. Load is
> > > about 50%.  With same settings, amd64 system run
> > > with 85% load. How could be so slow? What tuning
> > > extra is needed for amd64 kernels?
> >
> > 200kB/s sounds like misconfigured duplex/negotiation
> > mode.
> > But why don't you try FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1? Many
> > performance improvements were
> > achieved and stability is given in the -STABLE
> > branch (BETA1 is a relese of
> > FreeBSD 5-STABLE)
>
> I am sorry, I mean 200Mb/s. It is a controlled stream

Unfortunately that's a not so uncommon result with em and 5.3. There are=20
tuning methods but they won't give the big kick.

Like mentioned, try 5.4 (BETA1), depending on your employment you'll see=20
tremendous improvement, I don't have values handy nor can I confirm that fo=
r=20
amd64, but you really wnat to try out, especially if this box isn't=20
productive yet, which it isn't if I understood correctly.

=2DHarry

>
> Boris
>
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