ESXi 5.5 packet loss
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how many packets? I am not seeing this at all..
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how many packets? I am not seeing this at all..
Sorry, don't know why, but its problem with screenshot from vsphere client. Something around 50-300 packets every 30-60 mins.
Before tuning, it was 200-400 every minute.
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no not how many drops how many TOTAL packets – ie the ones your not dropping. See my screen shot.
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no not how many drops how many TOTAL packets – ie the ones your not dropping. See my screen shot.
Ah, ok.
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Try to see if E1000 network adapter works better for comparison.
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So your seeing a LOT of packets!!! Yeah I think adjusting the ring value or ring 2 value might be in order.. But sorry not sure how to do that in freebsd or pfsense.. linux normally just a simple ethtool -G
With intel something with sysctl hw.em.rxd= but not sue with using the vmx3??
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So your seeing a LOT of packets!!! Yeah I think adjusting the ring value or ring 2 value might be in order.. But sorry not sure how to do that in freebsd or pfsense.. linux normally just a simple ethtool -G
With intel something with sysctl hw.em.rxd= but not sue with using the vmx3??
Yes, same problem for me. Not sure, can i write just something like hw.vmx.rxd=4096? And which parameter for ring value, and which one for ring 2?…..
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Try to see if E1000 network adapter works better for comparison.
Its a little problematic for me. But can be done, if needed. I thought, it will be the same problem.
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We saw much better performance from the E1000 than VMXnet2 and 3.
Try it and report back.
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We saw much better performance from the E1000 than VMXnet2 and 3.
Try it and report back.
Ok, will try later today and will report back.
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So, the problem was with receiving buffers. According with https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vmx&sektion=4 i increased buffers of vmx adapters and problem is gone (em works well too, with tuned buffers). After, jumbo frames was overloaded, so i increased this parameter too.
The same with receiving buffers on windows clients, but this is another story…Thanks, guys! :)
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Which commands were executed on pfsense?
System: Advanced: System Tunables
hw.em.txd value
hw.em.rxd value
right?System 2 Nics Wan -em1000 and Lan -em1000
