top CPU load during iperf test

Box1:

load averages:  0.48,  0.17,  0.11  gateway1 18:40:59
24 processes: 23 idle, 1 on processor
CPU0 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice, 35.9% system, 15.8% interrupt, 48.3%
idle
CPU1 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU2 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU3 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU4 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU5 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  8.2% system,  1.2% interrupt, 90.6%
idle
CPU6 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU7 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice, 32.1% system,  0.6% interrupt, 67.3%
idle
Memory: Real: 19M/94M act/tot Free: 3845M Cache: 32M Swap: 0K/4302M


Box2:
load averages:  1.29,  0.43,  0.21 gateway2 18:41:42
30 processes: 29 idle, 1 on processor
CPU00 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  4.0% system, 87.3% interrupt,  8.7%
idle
CPU01 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU02 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU03 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU04 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU05 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU06 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU07 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU08 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU09 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU10 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU11 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU12 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
CPU13 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice, 56.5% system,  0.0% interrupt, 43.5%
idle
CPU14 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice, 72.7% system, 11.9% interrupt, 15.4%
idle
CPU15 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
Memory: Real: 20M/98M act/tot Free: 31G Cache: 36M Swap: 0K/32G





On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]>wrote:

> Evgeniy Sudyr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I need to figure if I can improve isakmpd / ipsec performance in my setup
> > on openbsd -current
> >
> > I have two boxes connected to each other via 1Gbit link and I'm using
> iperf
> > to test performance with default ipsec.conf between these two servers:
> >
> > # cat ipsec.conf:
> > ike esp from aaa.aaa.aaa.118 to aaa.aaa.aaa.98
>
> Since both your machines have AES-NI, I'd use AES-GCM there
> ("quick enc aes-128-gcm").
>
> > BOX1 dmesg:
> > BOX2 dmesg:
>
> Those are ncpu=16 and ncpu=8 machines...
>
> > During iperf tests I see that both servers CPU usage is low and iperf is
> > only CPU consumer:
>
> That's the CPU usage summed over all cores.  But the OpenBSD kernel
> isn't multithreaded, so it only can make use of a fraction of the
> total CPU power.
>
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]
>
>


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With regards,
Eugene Sudyr

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