Slow networkperformance in current?

[Kip Macy]

On 7/16/07, Ståle Kristoffersen <staale at kristoffersen.ws> wrote:
> On 2007-07-16 at 12:47, Kip Macy wrote:
> > 10 GigE cards are doing line rate - over time the cpu usage required
> > to do so is going down. Your experience is probably due to NIC issues.
> > What kind of NIC are you using? And have you changed any configuration
> > or settings?
>
> I was thinking of the NIC, thats why I tried it on localhost (bypassing the
> NIC(?)).
> I'm using a re-nick:
> re0: <RealTek 8168/8111B PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x7e00-0x7eff mem
> 0xfd3ff000-0xfd3fffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci3
>
> I have not changed anything, except upgrading the world + kernel. No
> hardware was added, no bios-settings where changed. The only thing I can
> think of is that I might have changed a sysctl a long time ago that boosted
> my performance, and that change have been lost after the reboot.

Please post the config you are using.

 -Kip