em blues

[Danny Braniss]

the box is a bit old (Intel Pentium III (933.07-MHz 686-class CPU)
dual cpu.

running iperf -c (receiving):

freebsd-4.10	0.0-10.0 sec    936 MBytes    785 Mbits/sec
freebsd-5.4	0.0-10.0 sec    413 MBytes    346 Mbits/sec
freebsd.6.1	0.0-10.0 sec    366 MBytes    307 Mbits/sec
freebsd-6.2	0.0-10.0 sec    344 MBytes    289 Mbits/sec

btw, iperf -s (xmitting) is slightly better
freebsd-4.10	0.0-10.0 sec    664 MBytes    558 Mbits/sec
freebsd-5.4	0.0-10.0 sec    390 MBytes    327 Mbits/sec
freebsd-6.1	0.0-10.0 sec    495 MBytes    415 Mbits/sec
freebsd-6.2	0.0-10.0 sec    487 MBytes    408 Mbits/sec

so, it seems that as the release number increases, the em
throughput gets worse - or iperf is.

danny