What settings for a large load?

[Cagle, John]

Kevin,

Which version of the driver are you using?

Thanks,
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Mills [mailto:kmills@aventail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 11:35 PM
> To: linux-eepro100@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Subject: What settings for a large load?
> 
> 
> 
> I'm using the eepro100 with Linux 2.2.14 on a dual PIII 500 
> server with 512
> MB of RAM.  This machine's soul purpose is to run a SOCKS 
> server and needs
> the highest throughput and lowest latency possible.  I have a 
> SOCKS client
> simulator that simulates 600 very hyperactive users sending 
> and receiving
> packets ranging in size from 60 to 1514 bytes.
> 
> What I see with the driver's default settings is a *lot* of dropped
> connections (ECONNRESET, ESHUTDOWN, ECONNREFUSED) and 
> timeouts (ETIMEDOUT).
> Increasing the transmit and receive ring sizes and the 
> transmit and receive
> FIFO thresholds helps, but I still see plenty of errors.
> 
> For comparison, I ran my client simulator against a Sun Netra 
> t1-105 (single
> UltraSparc-IIi 440) with its built-in NICs using the same 
> SOCKS server code
> and I received NO errors.
> 
> What settings should I use to get the best performance?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
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