Hello,
I was using 7.5.x with 4 RTL 8169 cards and getting excellent performance.
After my upgrade to 8.002 (via reinstall), 8.003, and now 8.100
I have terrible performance issues receiving on the network cards. This seems to be a known issue with the 2.6.32 kernel (per google). It seem that the astaro kernel lacks the patched r8169 kernel module.
I compiled a static iperf to drop on the astaro server via the loginuser.
From the iperf results below, I can send to the firewall at about 3.17 mbits/sec, while I can receive from the firewall at about 340 mbits/sec. Well over a factor of 100x difference.
I have changed, network cables, network switches, switch ports.
Find below, iperf output for the client and firewall, iperf output for the client accessing another server on the same switch, ethtool output, lspci, etc.
Is anyone else experiencing this sort of epic failure with the 8.x series?
Does anyone have any suggestions? All of my google found attempts have failed thus far.
ON THE FIREWALL (iperf is running as a server on the firewall):
loginuser@fw5:/home/login > ./iperf -s -B 192.168.25.250
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Server listening on TCP port 5001
Binding to local address 192.168.25.250
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
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[ 4] local 192.168.25.250 port 5001 connected with 192.168.25.32 port 43629
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-12.9 sec 4.88 MBytes 3.17 Mbits/sec
bind failed: Address already in use
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Client connecting to 192.168.25.32, TCP port 5001
Binding to local address 192.168.25.250
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
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[ 4] local 192.168.25.250 port 35648 connected with 192.168.25.32 port 5001
[ 4] 0.0-12.0 sec 492 MBytes 343 Mbits/sec
ON THE CLIENT machine (iperf is running as a client and configured for bidirectional testing):
donavan@moose:~ >iperf -c 192.168.25.250 -r -i 3 -t 12
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.25.250, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
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[ 5] local 192.168.25.32 port 43629 connected with 192.168.25.250 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 5] 0.0- 3.0 sec 1.50 MBytes 4.19 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 3.0- 6.0 sec 1.38 MBytes 3.84 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 6.0- 9.0 sec 1.00 MBytes 2.80 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 9.0-12.0 sec 896 KBytes 2.45 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 0.0-12.9 sec 4.88 MBytes 3.17 Mbits/sec
[ 4] local 192.168.25.32 port 5001 connected with 192.168.25.250 port 35648
[ 4] 0.0- 3.0 sec 129 MBytes 360 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 3.0- 6.0 sec 127 MBytes 355 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 6.0- 9.0 sec 122 MBytes 341 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 9.0-12.0 sec 113 MBytes 317 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 0.0-12.0 sec 492 MBytes 343 Mbits/sec
ON THE CLIENT machine accessing a different server on the same network (iperf is running as a client and configured for bidirectional testing):
donavan@moose:~ >iperf -c 192.168.25.68 -r -i 3 -t 12
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.25.68, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 71.0 KByte (default)
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[ 3] local 192.168.25.32 port 52489 connected with 192.168.25.68 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0- 3.0 sec 335 MBytes 938 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 3.0- 6.0 sec 337 MBytes 942 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 6.0- 9.0 sec 336 MBytes 941 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 9.0-12.0 sec 336 MBytes 941 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-12.0 sec 1.31 GBytes 940 Mbits/sec
[ 5] local 192.168.25.32 port 5001 connected with 192.168.25.68 port 48651
[ 5] 0.0- 3.0 sec 237 MBytes 662 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 3.0- 6.0 sec 258 MBytes 721 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 6.0- 9.0 sec 228 MBytes 637 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 9.0-12.0 sec 245 MBytes 686 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 0.0-12.0 sec 968 MBytes 676 Mbits/sec
fw5:/root # lspci -v
00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
Memory at cfffbf00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at cffc0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at cfffbe00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at cffa0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
00:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
Memory at cfffbd00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at cff80000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
fw5:/root # ifconfig eth2
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:4F:26:15:A4
inet addr:192.168.25.250 Bcast:192.168.25.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:897491 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1494950 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:76044723 (72.5 Mb) TX bytes:1905485388 (1817.2 Mb)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x6f00
fw5:/root # ethtool eth2
Settings for eth2:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
Link detected: yes
fw5:/root # dmesg
[ 3.648512] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
[ 3.648595] r8169 0000:00:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 3.648661] r8169 0000:00:05.0: PCI: Disallowing DAC for device
[ 3.648724] r8169 0000:00:05.0: no PCI Express capability
[ 3.648893] eth2: RTL8110s at 0xffffc900001a6f00, 00:06:4f:26:15:a4, XID 04000000 IRQ 16
Can I provide anything else of value?
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