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    Intel DN2800mt x64 2.0.3-2.1 bandwidth

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      @Jason:

      I've seen +900Mbps through my DN2800MT as well.

      Seems surprisingly high for an Atom board. You do anything special? It that actually through?

      Steve

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        kejianshi
        last edited by

        I think he is saying the NIC is capable…  Well - Shall see.

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          Jbmeth007
          last edited by

          Nope, still pretty slow although it did pick up a little more speed.  328Mbps TCP and 503Mbps UDP

          I'm looking at the system activity and what I thought was 87% cpu utilization is actually 87% cpu0  (Idle)    WTF!!! so its utilizing 13%

          Kernal em1 que and kernel em2 que shows 5.8%

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            kejianshi
            last edited by

            I'm thinking firewall will only utilize one core (or thread) fully.

            So, can you turn off hyper-threading in bios (if its present) and try again…  This time looking at per-core utilization.

            Its just a theory.

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              Jbmeth007
              last edited by

              I did that from the get go..  standard practice minimizing latency.  Hyperthreading is off..  right now as we speak I have both tcp offload engine off, "tried with it on as well"

              232Mbps

              last pid: 39883;  load averages:  0.21,  0.41,  0.24  up 0+00:05:08    23:24:26
              113 processes: 3 running, 93 sleeping, 17 waiting

              Mem: 57M Active, 19M Inact, 67M Wired, 284K Cache, 18M Buf, 1806M Free
              Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

              PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  C  TIME  WCPU COMMAND
                11 root    171 ki31    0K    32K CPU0    0  4:12 88.28% [idle{idle: cpu0}]
                11 root    171 ki31    0K    32K RUN    1  3:45 83.98% [idle{idle: cpu1}]
                  0 root    -68    0    0K  240K -      0  0:23  9.28% [kernel{em1 que}]
                  0 root    -68    0    0K  240K -      1  0:22  8.40% [kernel{em2 que}]
              69333 root      47    0  6956K  1592K select  1  0:09  3.27% /usr/sbin/syslogd -s -c -c -l /var/dhcpd/va
              31969 root      76    0  142M 41148K piperd  1  0:07  2.69% /usr/local/bin/php{php}
              18343 root      44    0  5780K  1072K piperd  0  0:04  0.49% logger -t pf -p local0.info
                  0 root    -16    0    0K  240K sched  1  0:44  0.00% [kernel{swapper}]
                257 root      76  20  6908K  1360K kqread  1  0:18  0.00% /usr/local/sbin/check_reload_status
              18245 root      44    0 11748K  2712K bpf    0  0:02  0.00% /usr/sbin/tcpdump -s 256 -v -S -l -n -e -tt
                12 root    -32    -    0K  272K WAIT    0  0:00  0.00% [intr{swi4: clock}]
                14 root    -16    -    0K    16K -      0  0:00  0.00% [yarrow]
              28465 root      76    0  136M 21540K wait    1  0:00  0.00% /usr/local/bin/php
              27988 root      76    0  136M 21540K wait    0  0:00  0.00% /usr/local/bin/php
              27735 root      44    0 24220K  3936K kqread  0  0:00  0.00% /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /var/etc/lighty
                  3 root      -8    -    0K    16K -      0  0:00  0.00% [g_up]
              59199 root      76  20  8296K  1776K wait    1  0:00  0.00% /bin/sh /var/db/rrd/updaterrd.sh
              22760 root      44    0  5780K  1460K select  1  0:00  0.00% /usr/local/sbin/apinger -c /var/etc/apinger

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              • K
                kejianshi
                last edited by

                Really?  Hmmmm…
                Its good to know all my theories are not off the wall then.

                Question - How long is this test you run?
                Is it long enough to see if HDD is involved in the process?

                (CPU is largely idle.  Its got me looking elsewhere.  PCIe is plenty fast)

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                  Jbmeth007
                  last edited by

                  it runs indefinitely until I disconnect..  I'll have my SSD tomorrow,  im not sure thought that its touching anything on the HD

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                    kejianshi
                    last edited by

                    I'm not sure that it is.  Also not sure it isn't.  Firewall gets logged.  States get logged.  There is squid…  I'm just interested to see what it would do with SSD.  Speaking of SSD, what kind?

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                      Jbmeth007
                      last edited by

                      lemme run downstairs and try swapping cables..

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                        Jbmeth007
                        last edited by

                        cable change did nothing.  its a 32Gig Samsung Full height mSata..  rated 520MB/s, I think the 32 gig is a 4channel though so it will probably be around 320MB/s.. I put it on a compeletly separate gig switch too….  I'm gonna put both these computers on the same switch and see if I get the bandwidth i'm looking for.

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                          kejianshi
                          last edited by

                          Yep - Being on same physical switch might speed things along.  Its a good switch?

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                            Jbmeth007
                            last edited by

                            yep  Enterasys b3g124-48..  and yes maxed out the lan link.  this is frustrating

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                              kejianshi
                              last edited by

                              That is really too nice a rig for a home play toy…

                              I just picked up a HP V1910-24G 24 port for $30 and I was jumping with joy...

                              I'm easily happy...

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                                kejianshi
                                last edited by

                                My next question might be stupid, so feel free to call me an idiot for asking…

                                You have no slow painful packages like snort running?  No traffic shapers running anywhere?

                                (asking dumb questions is part of my brainstorming process)

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                                  Jbmeth007
                                  last edited by

                                  @kejianshi:

                                  That is really too nice a rig for a home play toy…

                                  I just picked up a HP V1910-24G 24 port for $30 and I was jumping with joy...

                                  I'm easily happy...

                                  I found mine on a ebay ad from someone "junking a old business"  HAHHAAHAH..  100 bux shipped.  I snatched with the quickness.  Of course overkill is always nice.

                                  nope, fresh installation no packages

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                                    Jbmeth007
                                    last edited by

                                    im gonna try reinstalling, not that it would make a difference, perhaps something got screwed up.  be back in a few.

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                                      kejianshi
                                      last edited by

                                      I found two references to check…

                                      1.  reviewing you dmesg output that you have no other device using one of the nic's irqs

                                      2.  Try with system > advanced > polling on.

                                      Might as well try before a reinstall....

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                                        Jbmeth007
                                        last edited by

                                        how would I go about checking irq

                                        in bios I have everything extra disabled.

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                                          Jbmeth007
                                          last edited by

                                          ok weird thing,  reinstalled cpu0 is showing idle 24%  and 11% under load. while cpu1 is sitting 88.77%idle.

                                          could it be misrepresenting cpu idle state after updates?   poll is enabled..  sitting 100% idle,  or is it the Polling eating cpu?  I get same throughput.

                                          also going over dmesg list,  Looks like my nic uses irq 17 and 18.  18 is also shared with USB controller..  Let me try disabling all usb  no terminal

                                          Just tried changing tool to iperf and netted 193Mbit and 191Mbit on default test.  this isn't right.  I can't for the life of me figure out why it doesn't saturate cpu or nic.  just a little more information. when I run iperf or tamosoft tools, I can still pull 55Mb from my isp.  the cpu gets further away from idle when I do.  so I dont' know anymore.  time for sleep.

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by

                                            Are you running 'top -SH' to show all system processes etc?

                                            If you try polling, it's not recommended, make sure it correctly stops polling when you disable it again. I found it sometimes gets 'stuck'. Reboot.

                                            You could try enabling IP fast forwarding in System: Advanced: System Tunables: That usually speeds things up when routing but breaks IPSec so no good if you need that.

                                            Steve

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