em0 performance subpar

[Mike Tancsa]

On 4/28/2011 10:15 AM, Adam Stylinski wrote:

> 
> em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Legacy Network Connection 1.0.3> port 0xe800-0xe83f mem 0xfe9e0000-0xfe9fffff,0xfe9c0000-0xfe9dffff irq 20 at device 5.0 on pci7
> em0: [FILTER]

I am not sure the newer driver will help performance wise. It might fix
that bug you saw at least.  Jack from intel might be able to shed some
light on it. In the mean time, try generating traffic via netblast.
Another tool I find helpful in narrowing down tcp performance
differences is netperf

	---Mike


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