Troubles with em on FreeBSD 7

[Oleksandr Samoylyk]

Paul wrote:
> What is your kernel HZ setting?

1000

> in /boot/loader.conf try adding these two lines:
> hw.em.rxd=1024
> hw.em.txd=1024

I've already had:
# cat /boot/loader.conf
loader_logo="beastie"
autoboot_delay="3"
hw.em.rxd="4096"
hw.em.txd="4096"

> and then do this in sysctl.conf:
> net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen=1024

- already

> net.route.netisr_maxqlen=512

Ok. I just increased from default 256 up to 512

> kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=8388608

It was already higher

> kern.ipc.nmbclusters=128000

Ok, I just increased nmbclusters.

> 
> I think this should fix your packet loss problem.  Are you doing ip 
> forwarding at all? If so use:
> net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1

It was already in my sysctl.conf

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