Re: tcp troughput weirdness

From: Luigi Rizzo (rizzo_at_icir.org)
Date: 07/12/05

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    Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:42:16 -0700
    To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
    
    

    we need more data points -
    did you test tcp or udp ?
    who is sourcing data ?
    are the bandwidth symmetric (i.e. A-> same as B -> A ?

    cheers
    luigi

    On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 09:21:13AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
    > while checking out the quality of a switch, I came about a very disturbing
    > dicovery: FreeBSD <-> Linux througput is MUCH better than FreeBSD <-> FreeBSD
    >
    > Setup:
    > 2 blades in the same bladeserver, A running FreeBSD 5.4, B running Linux
    > C is running FreeBSD 5.4
    > all are connected at 1gb.
    >
    > A -+ (FreeBSD)
    > |
    > B -+ (Linux)
    > |
    > [switch]
    > |
    > +---- [router] --- C (FreeBSD)
    > A & B are on the same Vlan.
    >
    > iperf results:
    > Interval Transfer Bandwidth
    >
    > A <=> B 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 939 Mbits/sec
    >
    > A <=> C 0.0-10.0 sec 515 MBytes 432 Mbits/sec
    >
    > B <=> C 0.0-10.0 sec 1.07 GBytes 918 Mbits/sec
    >
    > I've run the tests several times, and the numbers are very similar,
    > so BIG Question: is there anything that can be tunned on the FreeBSD to
    > better the throughput?
    >
    > danny
    >
    >
    >
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