Bandwidth is limited under defined limit
Mihail Balikov
misho at interbgc.com
Tue May 6 07:40:06 PDT 2003
try to increase HZ to 1000 (or more)
/boot/loader.conf:
kern.hz="1000"
or recompile kernel with
options HZ=1000
regards,
Mihail Balikov
John Brogan writes:
> I'm not sure what details I should grab from our system but here is a
> breakdown of the problem.
>
> Router: running freebsd 4.7-p10 running ipfw for for firewall and simple
> traffic shaper.
>
> Circuit: 36mbps
>
> Problem: Trying to limit port 25 traffic from inside our network to use no
> more than 30mbps at any time, leaving 6mbps for web and other traffic. I
> am only getting 22mbps of outbound port 25 traffic no matter how I alter
> the pipe statement (below)
>
> in my rc.firewall at the top of the ruleset I have:
>
> ${fwcmd} add pipe 1 tcp from x.x.x.x/24 to any 25
> ${fwcmd} pipe 1 config bw 30Mbit/s
>
> (I'm showing x's instead of digits for reference)
>
> If I do an ipfw -a list, the pipe shows up as:
>
> 00400 57500157 62391158214 pipe 1 tcp from x.x.x.x/24 to any 25
>
> if I do an "ipfw pipe show" I get:
>
> 00001: 30.000 Mbit/s 0 ms 50 sl. 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail
> mask: 0x00 0x00000000/0x0000 -> 0x00000000/0x0000
> BKT Prot ___Source IP/port____ ____Dest. IP/port____ Tot_pkt/bytes
> Pkt/Byte Drp
> 0 tcp x.x.x.x/3576 x.x.x.x/25 62443512 67705656555 0 0 6649763
>
> I can set that "pipe 1 config bw" statement to 90mbps or 100mbps or
> something outrageous and it still does not want to let bandwidth go over
> 22mbps for port 25 traffic
>
> I am delivering news (opt-in only) for a very large cable news company and
> we are trying to figure out how to get more bandwidth for port 25 but not
> to saturate the circuit. If we remove the pipe alltogether just to make
> certain it's not some hardware issue then we almost immediately saturate
> the link at 100% with just port 25 traffic.
>
> I've read through the archives but have not found something similar to
> this, or at least from what I searched for. What could be causing this
> and if you have suggestions for other settings to make on this, I would
> appreciate the help.
>
> I'd rather use ipfw than buy a piece of hardware to do the bandwidht
> limiting because I've been a freebsd user back to the 1.1.5.1 days and
> believe in the product and project 100%
>
> Oh, and if anyone knows how I can get in touch with Rod Grimes, please let
> me know or pass my address along to him. I have a potential project for
> him.
>
> Many Thanks
>
> John Brogan
> jbrogan.com
>
>
>
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