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Date:      Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:38:35 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ermal_Lu=E7i?= <eri@freebsd.org>
To:        Hartmut Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, Vladislav Prodan <universite@ukr.net>, "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: Some gruesome moments with performance of FreeBSD at over 20K interfaces
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Another note related to Q-in-Q.

You would probably be better of creating standard vlans for the first vlan
layer and use ng_vlan for the second++ part of the Q-in-Q on top of the
first ones.
This also give better usability and will speedup a bit your times.


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Hartmut Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de>wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Vladislav Prodan wrote:
>
> VP>> On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Vladislav Prodan wrote:
> VP>>
> VP>> VP>b) Service bsnmpd started at 12K interfaces, but immediately
> loaded CPU
> VP>> VP>at 80-100%
> VP>>
> VP>> I could imagine that this is because of the statistics polling. bsnmp
> VP>> implements 64-bit interface statistics but we have only 32-bit
> statistics
> VP>> in the kernel. So it polls the kernel statistics for each interface
> on a
> VP>> rate that ensures that 32-bit don't overflow. If the interfaces are
> GBit
> VP>> or, worse, 10GBit interfaces the polling rate is rather high (in the
> order
> VP>> of seconds).
> VP>>
> VP>> You should either make sure that the interfaces report sensible
> bitrates
> VP>> (I doubt that 20k interfaces could all be GBit interfaces) or force a
> slower
> VP>> polling interval by setting begemotIfForcePoll.0 to some large value.
> VP>>
> VP>> harti
> VP>>
> VP>
> VP>Thanks for the tip.
> VP>
> VP>At least 10 interfaces to be 1Gb, and the rest no more than 50M.
> VP>BegemotIfForcePoll parameter in this case a little help, you will be
> forced to stand another value for Gigabit Interface begemotIfForcePoll ...
>
> Yeah. There is only one parameter.
>
> You are running -STABLE, right? On current the statistics are 64-bit
> (I wonder whether the operation on these values is automatically atomic on
> all our platforms, though).
>
> harti
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