Re: ixg(4) performances

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 12:50:42PM -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> 
> That's what I should've said if I wanted to be helpful. On Linux I
> suggest iperf (multiple threads) or multiple concurrent copies of
> netperf. It takes more than one thread to saturate the link. Then after
> you made sure that works, then you can go on to seeing how slow NFS
> really is.
> 
> On NetBSD I'm not sure.

As a first step, ensure your socket buffer sizes are adequate.  The default,
and default maximum, socket buffer sizes in NetBSD are inappropriate for
10Gb unless you are using hundreds of TCP conections at once.

Thor