Subject: Re: gigabit "benchmark"
To: Klaus Heinz <k.heinz@dezsieben.kh-22.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 12/07/2007 22:55:31
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:35:45PM +0100, Klaus Heinz wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> I would have expected NetBSD to achieve wirespeed with a single Gigabit
> NIC out of the box, nowadays. The blog entry does not mention tuning any
> of the other operating systems, so I suppose no tuning was done.

Maybe we should have offload turned on by default. It looks like all other
OSes have it on by default these days ... at last it's easier to turn
off with NetBSD than with linux :)

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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