Subject: Re: gigabit "benchmark"
To: Klaus Heinz <k.heinz@dezsieben.kh-22.de>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 12/05/2007 22:24:56
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Klaus Heinz wrote:
> Any opinions why NetBSD does not reach (near-) wirespeed with those Intel
> NICs as the others do and at the same time needs 100% CPU?

TCP buffers too small, and other values not tuned, see [1]? Though IIRC 
there was something about auto-tuning those buffers, but I don't know if 
that's enabled by default (or how to enable it if not).

[1] http://proj.sunet.se/LSR2/


  - Hubert