pls help network thoughput
ann kok
annkok2001 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 9 14:19:42 PST 2006
Hi Andrew and all
I installed freebsd 6.0, complied the kernal and put
the polling setting to sysctl.conf
after rebooting, it shows "kern.polling.enable is
deprecated" use ifconfig (8)
Do you have any ideas?
2/ how can I page up the see previous boot message in
the console?
Thank you for your help
--- "Andrew P." <infofarmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/06, ann kok <annkok2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Dear Andrew
> >
> > Thank you for your help in advance
> >
> > I keep checking the loading. it is running fine.
> the
> > load averages is not over to 1.0
> >
> >
> > System info:
> > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
> > 2G memory
> >
> > for the sysctl var:
> >
> > kern.polling.enable=1
> > kern.polling.user_frac=10
> > kern.ipc.somaxconn=2048
> > kern.polling.poll_in_trap=1
> >
> > I don't run iperf and my switch is not
> managable.
> >
> > could you provide any hints to check it?
> >
> > and tune the system also.
> >
> > Thank you again
> >
> >
> >
> > last pid: 47008; load averages: 0.00, 0.02,
> 0.02
> > up
> > 80+11:09:17 22:42:18
> > 31 processes: 1 running, 30 sleeping
> > CPU states: % user, % nice, % system,
> > % interrupt, % idle
> > Mem: 100M Active, 1639M Inact, 201M Wired, 60M
> Cache,
> > 199M Buf, 11M Free
>
> With such a high-spec box, you should probably be
> running
> FreeBSD 6. It has much more polling related sysctl
> tunable.
> We've got too FreeBSD 5 firewalls at our site (which
> are doing
> just fine), and I'm gonna upgrade them to 6.0 one of
> these
> days.
>
> Look at "netstat -s" to see how many packets are
> "broken".
> Maybe your switch/cabling can't cope with the load.
>
> Where are the figures from the top output. I only
> see percent
> signs.
>
> Try running iperf. It's really easy. Just install
> the port on two
> boxes, run iperf -s on one and iperf -c <other IP>
> on the
> other.
>
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