Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:59:22 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net> Cc: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>, Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ENOBUFS Message-ID: <20021018105922.E82982@carp.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20021018103653.V1611-100000@gateway.posi.net>; from kbyanc@posi.net on Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:45:13AM -0700 References: <20021018103319.A82982@carp.icir.org> <20021018103653.V1611-100000@gateway.posi.net>
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How is the measurement done, does the box under test act as a router with the smartbit pushing traffic in and expecting it back ? The numbers are strange, anyways. A frame of N bytes takes (N*8+160) nanoseconds on the wire, which for 330-byte frames should amount to 1000000/(330*8+160) ~= 357kpps, not the 249 or so you are seeing. Looks as if the times were 40% off. cheers luigi On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:45:13AM -0700, Kelly Yancey wrote: ... > > can push out over 400kpps (64byte frames) on a 2.4GHz box. > > > > luigi > > > > Using a SmartBit to push traffic across a 1.8Ghz P4; 82543 chipset card > plugged into PCI-X bus: > > FrameSize TxFrames RxFrames LostFrames Lost (%) > 330 249984 129518 120466 48.19 > 331 249144 127726 121418 48.73 > 332 248472 140817 107655 43.33 > 333 247800 247800 0 0 > > It has no trouble handling frames 333 bytes or larger. But for any frame > 332 bytes or smaller we consistently see ~50% packet loss. This same machine > easily pushes ~100Mps with the very same frame sizes using a bge card rather > than em. > > I've gotten the same results with both em driver version 1.3.14 and 1.3.15 > on both FreeBSD 4.5 and 4.7 (all 4 combinations, that is). > > Kelly > > -- > Kelly Yancey -- kbyanc@{posi.net,FreeBSD.org} > FreeBSD, The Power To Serve: http://www.freebsd.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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