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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:31:03 -0600
From:      "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
To:        Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Noisex <noisex@apollo.lv>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD TCP tuning and performance
Message-ID:  <11167f520912101231v34433e1dh6c5fbeee507e3118@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Steven Hartland
<killing@multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
> What are your iperf command lines?

using FreeBSD RELENG_8 amd64 on a low traffic dell 5224 switch I was
able to see these results, and I don't see a problem

wile running iperf I brought up top -P on my desktop machine here is
what it said

last pid: 27659;  load averages:  0.62,  0.34,  0.22

               up 1+20:29:22  14:28:43
166 processes: 3 running, 163 sleeping
CPU 0:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice, 91.6% system,  0.0% interrupt,  8.4% idle
CPU 1:  3.8% user,  0.0% nice,  9.6% system,  0.0% interrupt, 86.5% idle
CPU 2:  7.7% user,  0.0% nice, 18.7% system,  0.6% interrupt, 72.9% idle
CPU 3:  1.3% user,  0.0% nice, 26.5% system,  0.6% interrupt, 71.6% idle
Mem: 587M Active, 706M Inact, 376M Wired, 6556K Cache, 271M Buf, 2241M Free
Swap: 3072M Total, 168K Used, 3072M Free

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
24268 sfourman      1  46    0   368M 43060K CPU2    1  87:54  2.29%
npviewer.bin
24263 sfourman     10  44    0   357M   186M ucond   1  25:21  1.07% firefox-bin
 1396 sfourman      1  44    0  3245M 98416K select  1  47:19  0.00% Xorg
24271 sfourman      1  44    0   368M 43060K futex   1  15:35  0.00%
npviewer.bin
24272 sfourman      1  44    0   368M 43060K futex   2  12:26  0.00%
npviewer.bin
24273 sfourman      1  44    0   368M 43060K futex   3   8:14  0.00%
npviewer.bin
24284 sfourman      1  44    0   368M 43060K pcmwrv  2   1:07  0.00%
npviewer.bin
22460 sfourman      1  44    0 33336K 25280K select  0   1:02  0.00% wowmatrix
 1657 sfourman      2  51    0   112M 18880K piperd  1   0:52  0.00%
gnome-terminal
 1368 root          1  44    0 12536K  1688K select  1   0:50  0.00%
hald-addon-storage
 1366 root          1  44    0 12536K  1684K select  1   0:50  0.00%
hald-addon-storage
 1412 sfourman      3  44    0   212M 19304K ucond   1   0:40  0.00%
gnome-settings-daem
  705 root          1  44    0  8036K  1184K select  3   0:37  0.00% moused
 1437 sfourman      2  44    0   198M 41172K ucond   1   0:32  0.00% nautilus
 1329 root          1  44    0 12536K  1628K select  3   0:19  0.00%
hald-addon-storage
18652 sfourman      2  56    0   112M 18736K piperd  2   0:18  0.00%
gnome-terminal
 1321 haldaemon     1  44    0 24380K  4920K select  2   0:18  0.00% hald
 1435 sfourman      2  44    0   164M 29048K ucond   2   0:17  0.00% gnome-panel
 1434 sfourman      1  44    0   110M 16348K select  1   0:15  0.00% metacity
17410 sfourman      1  44    0 13000K  2336K select  3   0:15  0.00% gam_server
 1506 sfourman      2  44    0   172M 22000K ucond   2   0:14  0.00%
clock-applet
 1469 sfourman      2  44    0 98440K 14148K ucond   3   0:12  0.00%
gnome-screensaver
 1476 sfourman      1  44    0   135M 18960K select  3   0:10  0.00% wnck-applet
 1482 sfourman      2  44    0 25104K  4200K ucond   1   0:10  0.00% gvfsd-trash
 1488 sfourman      3  47    0 28204K  4628K piperd  0   0:10  0.00%
gvfs-hal-volume-mon
 1407 sfourman      1  44    0 26764K  7252K select  1   0:10  0.00% gconfd-2
27653 root          3  44    0 15588K  4512K ucond   1   0:07  0.00% iperf
19711 sfourman      2  44    0   113M 20304K piperd  3   0:07  0.00% Thunar
 1546 root          1  44    0 13000K  2116K select  3   0:06  0.00% gam_server
24852 sfourman     10  44    0   249M 51160K select  0   0:03  0.00% vlc
22153 sfourman      1  60   16 66140K 13548K select  2   0:03  0.00% trackerd
25373 sfourman     10  44    0   251M 54412K select  1   0:02  0.00% vlc
 1450 sfourman      1  44    0   126M 17076K select  2   0:02  0.00%
gnome-power-manager




FreeBSD Sam.PuffyBSD.Com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Mon Nov 30
21:25:50 CST 2009
sfourman@Sam.PuffyBSD.Com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64


nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=19b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
	ether 00:23:54:96:dd:8d
	inet 192.168.12.117 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.12.255
	media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,flag2>)
	status: active


Sam# iperf -i 1 -t 60 -c 192.168.12.188 -w 2.5M -l 2.5M
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.12.188, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 32.5 KByte (WARNING: requested 2.50 MByte)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 192.168.12.117 port 46609 connected with 192.168.12.188 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0- 1.0 sec    110 MBytes    923 Mbits/sec
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  1.0- 2.0 sec    110 MBytes    923 Mbits/sec
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  2.0- 3.0 sec    112 MBytes    944 Mbits/sec
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth



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