Re: Network Performace

From: Shawn Ramsey (shawn_at_cpl.net)
Date: 06/25/03

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    To: "Karl Pielorz" <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
    Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:27:55 -0700
    
    

    > That's certainly a step in the right direction :)
    >
    > > But something is still very
    > > wrong performance wise. It has helped, but I still can't push in/out
    > > nearly 100Mb/sec. (100Mb in, 100Mb out I mean). A simple FTP transfer
    > > locally through the routers gigabit interface causes our internet
    > > performance to plummet. I've disabled all the onboard stuff that was
    > > sharing IRQs with PCI cards, but I didn't figure that was an issue,
    > > didn't make a difference either way. Would the fact the gigabit is on
    the
    > > same PCI bus have any bearing? I would expect to at least get 100BT
    > > performance even so, but I don't have any experience with gigabit
    > > ethernet...
    >
    > The only thing I can suggest is try different PCI slots, or Gigabit cards,
    > or, worst case a different system. Having NIC's on separate PCI busses (as
    > opposed to both on the same PCI bus) may help it [But that's probably
    going
    > to need a new board etc.]

    Thats what I was going to try next, but i've noticed this :

    gw# netstat -I xl0 -w 1
               input (xl0) output
      packets errs bytes packets errs bytes colls
         7120 11 9118416 5566 0 2507132 0
         6754 6 8498898 5649 0 3009719 0
         7104 9 8856812 5802 0 3004529 0
         7737 19 9787501 6429 0 2994557 0
         7551 16 9670490 5948 0 2761794 0

    I would guess such a large number of errors per second could be causing the
    interrupt usuage? From what i've been able to find such input errors are
    usually caused by a bad cable, or switch...

    > You don't say what Gigabit nic's your using? - I've had a lot of varied
    > results with different nic's, with surprisingly cheap 10/100/1000Mbit
    cards
    > giving 'reasonable' performance - but get left standing for dust by other
    > more expensive cards.

    Its an Intel Fiber card, don't know the exact model offhand...

    > The only other thing I can think of is, check the duplex/media options are
    > all setup properly on the cards / switches etc. - or try forcing things to
    > fdx etc.

    Been there, done that, full duplex/autoselect makes no difference, but its
    currently set for full/1000SX on both ends.

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