Re: Poor performance with MTU 9000

2006-02-28 Thread Benjamin LaHaise
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:33:38PM -0500, John Zielinski wrote: > Rick Jones wrote: > >And if you add the test-specific -D option? > > No difference. I have TCP_NODELAY in my Samba config and copying files > from the server is painfully slow. That's what got me started on all > these tests. Y

Re: Poor performance with MTU 9000

2006-02-28 Thread John Zielinski
Problem solved. It was a bad network card. When I swapped cards between two machines the problem followed the card. It's odd how the problem only popped up when the packet size reached a certain point. Thanks for all your help. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe net

Re: Poor performance with MTU 9000

2006-02-28 Thread John Zielinski
Rick Jones wrote: And if you add the test-specific -D option? No difference. I have TCP_NODELAY in my Samba config and copying files from the server is painfully slow. That's what got me started on all these tests. BTW, did someone already suggest disabling TSO if it happens to be enable

Re: Poor performance with MTU 9000

2006-02-28 Thread Rick Jones
John Zielinski wrote: Rick Jones wrote: 8KB socket buffers, 8KB writes to the socket or both? 8KB write to the socket with an 8KB read on the other end. TCP socket buffers at default. OK. I'm using netperf now since the numbers were about the same and netperf has more options. Good

Re: Poor performance with MTU 9000

2006-02-28 Thread John Zielinski
Rick Jones wrote: 8KB socket buffers, 8KB writes to the socket or both? 8KB write to the socket with an 8KB read on the other end. TCP socket buffers at default. I'm using netperf now since the numbers were about the same and netperf has more options. netperf -t TCP_STREAM -H -- -s 128K

Re: Poor performance with MTU 9000

2006-02-28 Thread Rick Jones
John Zielinski wrote: Rick Jones wrote: What does your quick and dirty test program use for socket buffer sizes and/or send sizes? What does the performance look like with a netperf TCP_STREAM test of various socket buffer and send sizes? For my test program I used a 8K send and receive buf

Re: Poor performance with MTU 9000

2006-02-28 Thread John Zielinski
Rick Jones wrote: What does your quick and dirty test program use for socket buffer sizes and/or send sizes? What does the performance look like with a netperf TCP_STREAM test of various socket buffer and send sizes? For my test program I used a 8K send and receive buffers. The socket buffers

Re: Poor performance with MTU 9000

2006-02-28 Thread Rick Jones
What does your quick and dirty test program use for socket buffer sizes and/or send sizes? What does the performance look like with a netperf TCP_STREAM test of various socket buffer and send sizes? The comparison might help find the extent to which application behaviour matters. rick jones

Re: Poor performance with MTU 9000

2006-02-27 Thread John Zielinski
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote: What kind of NIC are you using? All my machines here now have VIA Velocity NICs in them. The other two machines work perfectly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at h

Re: Poor performance with MTU 9000

2006-02-27 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:34:48 -0500), John Zielinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I'm having a strange problem with my server machine. When I use an MTU > of 9000 I get a throughput of only 45-65Mbit/sec not counting TCP/IP > overhead. Receiving I get around 310M