I've ran out of ideas

[Aaron Glenn]

Unless there is something of interest to the project, I can't. I don't
have a spare box of it's kind, unfortunately, and I have zero interest
in using 4.x for anything. Would a move to Apache 1.3 or Apache 2
better utilize 5.x?

aaron.glenn


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:58:54 +0900 (KST), CHOI Junho <cjh at kr.freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Can you test it on 4.x machines? I think 5.x is not stable/optimized
> for kqueue operations of thttpd.
> 
> If you have sufficient(not swapping) memory, you can do 100Mbps/sec
> easily, as long as on 4.x.
> 
> And, check several sysctls: somaxconn, mbuf, and polling.
> 
> From: Aaron Glenn <aaron.glenn at gmail.com>
> Subject: I've ran out of ideas
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:47:17 -0800
> 
> 
> 
> > I'm pushing large files via thttpd over low-end hardware (celeron
> > 1.8GHz, 512MB RAM, UATA 100 drive) and, out of the box, FreeBSD
> > 5.3-RELEASE topped out at 40Mbps sustained. After creating a separate
> > partition with a much larger blocksize, it's hit 50Mbps sustained but
> > won't go past 54Mbps at all.
> >
> > iostat shows the drive pushing 3.5MB/s pretty consistently. There are
> > on average 750 http connections. Interrupts take 12% of the CPU,
> > according to top, and another 2% for thttpd itself. The box doesn't
> > swap.
> >
> > My dmesg is inexplicably gone...which I realize is going to seriously
> > hamper any constructive input. It is an fxp card, and the IDE
> > controller is a generic Intel controller (the motherboard is an old
> > gateway desktop pull). The /var/log/messages file is filled with:
> >
> > Nov 18 04:00:15 d thttpd[38743]: write - Socket is not connected
> > sending /path/to/file.name
> >
> > I'd like to know what else I can to do maximize raw network I/O. I
> > don't see why this box can't push 90Mbps. My good friend, colleague,
> > and Linux zealot, is eating this up. (-:
> >
> > Regards,
> > aaron.glenn
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