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Subject: Re: [pfSense] VM TOE settings?
From: Sean Cavanaugh <millenia2000 () hotmail ! com>
Date: 2012-08-16 19:38:07
Message-ID: BAY165-ds9EF994900F682068CCA88CAB50 () phx ! gbl
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Personal experience is that full TOE impairs speed. Every server we've had that has \
it enabled gets lowered network throughput. Checksum would be only offloading that \
would benefit.
PowerD under VM doesn't do anything. VMware already does those types of power \
management.
From: list-bounces@lists.pfsense.org [mailto:list-bounces@lists.pfsense.org] On \
Behalf Of Adam Thompson
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:19 PM
To: pfSense support list
Subject: [pfSense] VM TOE settings?
Can any of the dev team tell me why, at least when installing under VMware – I \
haven't checked bare metal, the default is to enable h/w checksum, but disable all \
the other h/w offload features? I can't find any notes in the git commit logs about \
this (but maybe I'm searching for the wrong things).
Additionally, is there any point to enabling PowerD under VMware?
Thanks,
-Adam Thompson
athompso@athompso.net
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class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Personal experience \
is that full TOE impairs speed. Every server we've had that has it enabled gets \
lowered network throughput. Checksum would be only offloading that would benefit. \
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
style='color:#1F497D'>PowerD under VM doesn't do anything. VMware already does those \
types of power management.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span \
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list-bounces@lists.pfsense.org [mailto:list-bounces@lists.pfsense.org] <b>On Behalf \
Of </b>Adam Thompson<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> \
pfSense support list<br><b>Subject:</b> [pfSense] VM TOE \
settings?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p \
class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Can any of the dev team tell me why, at least when \
installing under VMware – I haven't checked bare metal, the default is to enable \
h/w checksum, but disable all the other h/w offload features? I can't find any \
notes in the git commit logs about this (but maybe I'm searching for the wrong \
things).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
lang=EN-CA>Additionally, is there any point to enabling PowerD under \
VMware?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span \
lang=EN-CA>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA \
style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>-Adam Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p \
class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><a \
href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net">athompso@athompso.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p \
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