FreeBSD TCP tuning and performance

[Steven Hartland]

What app are you using there and is it setting the send / receive buffers correctly?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Noisex" <noisex at apollo.lv>
To: <freebsd-performance at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 12:41 PM
Subject: FreeBSD TCP tuning and performance


Hi! I have a problem with TCP performance on FBSD boxes with 1Gbps net i-faces (Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2)). 
Currently i use FBSD 7.1 AMD64.

The test lab: 2 x (server-client) HP Proliant G5 DL360 (quad-core/8gb ram, raid 5 SAS).

For net benchmark i used nuttcp and iperf.

The servers (client-server) are in 1 VLAN.

The results on 1Gbps (down & up):

   63.4375 MB /   1.00 sec =  532.1332 Mbps
   64.3750 MB /   1.00 sec =  540.0426 Mbps
   62.8125 MB /   1.00 sec =  526.8963 Mbps
   64.5625 MB /   1.00 sec =  541.6318 Mbps
   63.9375 MB /   1.00 sec =  536.3595 Mbps
   63.7500 MB /   1.00 sec =  534.7566 Mbps
   63.0000 MB /   1.00 sec =  528.5003 Mbps
   63.5000 MB /   1.00 sec =  532.7150 Mbps
   64.0000 MB /   1.00 sec =  536.8586 Mbps
   63.5625 MB /   1.00 sec =  533.2452 Mbps

   637.6688 MB /  10.02 sec =  533.9108 Mbps 9 %TX 9 %RX 9 host-retrans 0.67 msRTT

   25.5625 MB /   1.00 sec =  214.3916 Mbps
   30.8750 MB /   1.00 sec =  259.0001 Mbps
   29.9375 MB /   1.00 sec =  251.1347 Mbps
   27.1875 MB /   1.00 sec =  228.0669 Mbps
   30.5000 MB /   1.00 sec =  255.8533 Mbps
   30.2500 MB /   1.00 sec =  253.7551 Mbps
   26.8125 MB /   1.00 sec =  224.9211 Mbps
   30.3750 MB /   1.00 sec =  254.8047 Mbps
   30.3750 MB /   1.00 sec =  254.8050 Mbps
   30.0625 MB /   1.00 sec =  252.1835 Mbps

  292.2155 MB /  10.02 sec =  244.6825 Mbps 10 %TX 12 %RX 0 host-retrans 0.71 msRTT

As you can see down is littlebit more than half of full link speed. And upload is only 20-25% of full link.

I tried to change a lot sysctl params but without a big results. Currenlty my entries in /etc/sysctl.conf which regarding to TCP:

#kernel tuning, tcp
kern.ipc.somaxconn=2048
kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768

kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=8388608
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=16777216
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=16777216
net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable=0
net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536
net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536
net.inet.udp.recvspace=65536
net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable=0
net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1
net.inet.tcp.sack.enable=1
net.inet.tcp.path_mtu_discovery=1
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_auto=1
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc=16384
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_auto=1
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=524288

Do you have some kind suggestion what i could to change to increase the performance of TCP?

Besides when i make the benchamrks i run the sniffer to see whats happening with network..sometimes i saw that window size is 
0...does it mean that server can't handle something or recieve buffer size is to small?

p.s sory for my bad english :)
Noisex


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