Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:19:41 -0800 (PST) From: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> To: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: pls help network thoughput Message-ID: <20060109221941.20904.qmail@web53309.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420601070244m62aaafe8k199b2727a3974fe2@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Andrew and all I installed freebsd 6.0, complied the kernal and put the polling setting to sysctl.conf after rebooting, it shows "kern.polling.enable is deprecated" use ifconfig (8) Do you have any ideas? 2/ how can I page up the see previous boot message in the console? Thank you for your help --- "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/7/06, ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Dear Andrew > > > > Thank you for your help in advance > > > > I keep checking the loading. it is running fine. > the > > load averages is not over to 1.0 > > > > > > System info: > > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz > > 2G memory > > > > for the sysctl var: > > > > kern.polling.enable=1 > > kern.polling.user_frac=10 > > kern.ipc.somaxconn=2048 > > kern.polling.poll_in_trap=1 > > > > I don't run iperf and my switch is not > managable. > > > > could you provide any hints to check it? > > > > and tune the system also. > > > > Thank you again > > > > > > > > last pid: 47008; load averages: 0.00, 0.02, > 0.02 > > up > > 80+11:09:17 22:42:18 > > 31 processes: 1 running, 30 sleeping > > CPU states: % user, % nice, % system, > > % interrupt, % idle > > Mem: 100M Active, 1639M Inact, 201M Wired, 60M > Cache, > > 199M Buf, 11M Free > > With such a high-spec box, you should probably be > running > FreeBSD 6. It has much more polling related sysctl > tunable. > We've got too FreeBSD 5 firewalls at our site (which > are doing > just fine), and I'm gonna upgrade them to 6.0 one of > these > days. > > Look at "netstat -s" to see how many packets are > "broken". > Maybe your switch/cabling can't cope with the load. > > Where are the figures from the top output. I only > see percent > signs. > > Try running iperf. It's really easy. Just install > the port on two > boxes, run iperf -s on one and iperf -c <other IP> > on the > other. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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