From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 26 19:08:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54DC116A41C for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:08:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hroi@ngdc.net) Received: from quentin.asdf.dk (quentin.asdf.dk [217.116.240.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E442B43D53 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:08:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hroi@ngdc.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by quentin.asdf.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF75B81E for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:08:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from quentin.asdf.dk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (quentin.asdf.dk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92855-02 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:08:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.12.1.133] (city-office.ngdc.dk [195.190.153.193]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by quentin.asdf.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B3FB81C for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:08:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <42961EA9.2010700@ngdc.net> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:08:25 +0200 From: Hroi Sigurdsson Organization: NetGroup Data Center A/S User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org References: <1117129668.42960bc4b751b@webmail.telus.net> <9827650D-A61E-461A-85FC-A45413B42FEA@mac.com> <1117133571.42961b03ca6fd@webmail.telus.net> <2416.172.16.0.199.1117133818.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <1117133912.42961c587e09d@webmail.telus.net> In-Reply-To: <1117133912.42961c587e09d@webmail.telus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at quentin.asdf.dk Subject: Re: Performance/lockup issues with FreeBSD as a router 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: Thu, 26 May 2005 19:08:36 -0000 Peter Kieser wrote: > Yes, I have -- some fxp and ed cards. Have you tried without "optimizing"? Most of your optimizations are for socket and TCP buffers, only servers need that. A router just forwards packets. What does netstat -m say and the "CPU Usage:" column in top? Check the interrupt load. Try if polling(4) helps. -- Hroi Sigurdsson · NetGroup DataCenter A/S St. Kongensgade 40H · DK-1264 Copenhagen K, Denmark Phone: +45 3370 1544 · Fax: +45 7025 2687