Re: NFS performance with 10GBase-T

>  Hannes
>    In the dmesg posted I see that you have a epair loaded . Are you 
> trying to do NFS inside of a Jail ?
>

No, the NFS server is running on the regular FreeBSD (host). The epair 
is used to give an (unrelated) jail a different mac-address for obscure 
reasons that I could elaborate but have nothing to do with the matter at 
hand :D


> Rick, Didn't someone from Isilon or Dell/EMC post about the 9K frames 
> a long time ago ?  I know in isilon land
> their FreeBSD can do this, but I can't say I have any idea how it's 
> being done. They do have some kernel auto-tune magic as well
> to find optimal send and receive buffers. Maybe what we are seeing is 
> Linux having better ergonomics on buffers out of the box ?
>
> Hannes
>   Can you post your boot.conf and sysctl.conf settings.


Sure! I assume you mean loader.conf? I have posted the contents below.

If any other information would help, let me know!

Best regards,

Hannes


Server's loader.conf:

cryptodev_load="YES"
zfs_load="YES"
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=4737024
if_ix_updated_load="YES"
hw.pci.do_power_nodriver=3
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest=Cmax
machdep.hwpstate_pkg_ctrl=0

Server's sysctl.conf:

security.bsd.see_other_uids=0
security.bsd.see_jail_proc=0
kern.randompid=1
vfs.zfs.arc.max=10737418240

Client's loader.conf:

zfs_load="YES"
geom_journal_load="YES"
snd_hda_load="YES"
sem_load="YES"
amdtemp_load="YES"
msdosfs_iconv_load="YES"
hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1
efi_max_resolution=2160p
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=4737024
vfs.maxbcachebuf=1048576

Client's  sysctl.conf:

vfs.usermount=1
hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0
kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1
debug.debugger_on_panic=0
kern.geom.debugflags=16
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=4737024
kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864
kern.ipc.shmall=32768
kern.sched.preempt_thresh=224
kern.maxfiles=1000000
hw.syscons.bell=0