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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:23:12 +0100
From:      "OxY" <oxy@field.hu>
To:        "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit
Message-ID:  <000e01c64a8f$1b2bec80$0201a8c0@oxy>
References:  <000a01c64a81$45eb6850$0201a8c0@oxy> <441BF838.1080600@mac.com> <000601c64a87$51d7dee0$0201a8c0@oxy> <441BFF26.90807@mac.com>

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currently i use HZ=2000
here's the output of netstat -i, -s, and vmstat -i :
(currently i am uploading on the gigabit with ftp, 3 threads)

Field root# vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq0: clk                       27503959       1993
irq1: atkbd0                           1          0
irq3: fxp0                             2          0
irq7:                                146          0
stray irq7                           146          0
irq8: rtc                        1765569        127
irq10: atapci1                   2807786        203
irq11: atapci0                    475039         34
irq13: npx0                            1          0
irq14: ata0                           99          0
Total                           32552748       2359

Field root# netstat -i
Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs 
Coll
fxp0   1500 <Link#1>      00:a0:c9:8d:79:68 13163545     0 21899372     1 
0
fxp0   1500 195.38.96.64/ field                  141     - 
22056     -     -
em0    1500 <Link#2>      00:0e:0c:a2:ac:42 68644181     4 66793904     0 
0
em0    1500 195.38.96.64/ field             211255811     - 
3903     -     -
lo0   16384 <Link#3>                        129622061     0 129622061     0 
0

netstat -s is here:
http://field.hu/netstat.txt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>
To: "OxY" <oxy@field.hu>
Cc: <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit


> OxY wrote:
>> yeah, i googled these settings, but i put them back to default then!
>> i measured iperf performance, and it showed that the packet drop is
>> depending on the system load..
>
> If you are using the normal interrupt-driven configuration, you should 
> look at
> netstat -i, -s, and vmstat -i.  If you're turning on device polling, you 
> ought
> to retry your testing at higher HZ (try 2000 or 5000):
>
>   echo 'kern.hz="2000"' >> /boot/loader.conf
>
> -- 
> -Chuck 




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