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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 2013 00:20:04 -0400
From:      Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Terrible ix performance
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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>wrote:

> Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io
>
> iperf -i 10 -t 20 -c 10.0.96.1 -w 2.5M -l 2.5M
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to 10.0.96.1, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size: 2.50 MByte (WARNING: requested 2.50 MByte)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 10.0.96.2 port 34753 connected with 10.0.96.1 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  9.78 GBytes  8.40 Gbits/sec
> [  3] 10.0-20.0 sec  8.95 GBytes  7.69 Gbits/sec
> [  3]  0.0-20.0 sec  18.7 GBytes  8.05 Gbits/sec
>
>
> the card has a 3 meter twinax cable from cisco connected to it, going
> through a fujitsu switch. We have tweaked various networking, and kernel
> sysctls, however from a sftp and nfs session i cant get better then 100MBs
> from a zpool with 8 mirrored vdevs. We also have an identical box that will
> get 1.4Gbs with a 1 meter cisco twinax cables that writes 2.4Gbs compared
> to reads only 1.4Gbs...
>
> does anyone have an idea of what the bottle neck could be?? This is a
> shared storage array with dual LSI controllers connected to 32 drives via
> an enclosure, local dd and other tests show the zpool performs quite well.
> however as soon as we introduce any type of protocol, sftp, samba, nfs
> performance plummets. Im quite puzzled and have run out of ideas.
>
> ix0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x000c8086 chip=0x10fb8086 rev=0x01
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = '82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> ix1@pci0:2:0:1: class=0x020000 card=0x000c8086 chip=0x10fb8086 rev=0x01
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = '82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
>

Okay so now curiousity has me........ its loading the ix driver and working
but not up to speed,
it is feasible it should be using the ixgbe driver??



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