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тАО05-21-2007 10:05 PM
тАО05-21-2007 10:05 PM
$mc lancp show dev /internal_counter eia0
--> "28 Receive overrun errors"
Current device min/max receive buffers are as below:
128 Minimum receive buffers
256 Maximum receive buffers
I expect tuning of above should help to reduce the overrun problem, but I couldn't find any recommendation on the tuning i.e. if there's any quota/limitation of what can be set and what's the impact of the increase of the buffer setting.
In addition, other possibility is resource contention. Any suggestion on tuning in this area?
Would appreciate if anyone can enlighten me on above.
Thanks in advance.
- Swee Eng
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тАО05-22-2007 12:34 AM
тАО05-22-2007 12:34 AM
Re: Receive buffer overrun on NIC (OpenVms Alpha 7.3.2)
Wim
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тАО05-22-2007 04:29 AM
тАО05-22-2007 04:29 AM
Re: Receive buffer overrun on NIC (OpenVms Alpha 7.3.2)
Swee Eng,
As Wim points out, 28 is a trivial figure. I wouldn't be concerned unless this figure was increasing constantly. Increasing the receive buffers with LANCP uses a minimal amount of memory so there's no issue with doubling these if desired.
Do you have a performance issue you're attempting to troubleshoot? If TCPIP is the bulk of your network traffic, are you using the scalable kernel (on an SMP system).
Andy
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тАО05-22-2007 12:52 PM
тАО05-22-2007 12:52 PM
Re: Receive buffer overrun on NIC (OpenVms Alpha 7.3.2)
Thanks for the prompt replies.
The overrun errors do increase daily, though not at alarming rate. Unfortunately, the application we developed is using UDP multicast as the data transport, hence, we can't afford even a single overrun. Until we upgrade the application to TCP, we're finding ways to eliminate any possible causes to the UDP message loss.
I need to check if we're using SMP model, but I believe should be with Scalable Kernel (AlphaServer ES45, TCPIP V5.4-15).
Best regards,
Swee Eng
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тАО05-22-2007 01:33 PM
тАО05-22-2007 01:33 PM
Re: Receive buffer overrun on NIC (OpenVms Alpha 7.3.2)
note that the scalable kernel is not the default with TCPIP V5.4 - you have to enable it by setting
DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXECUTIVE TCPIP$STARTUP_CPU_IMAGES "PERF=ALL"
See the reference:-
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/DOC/732FINAL/TCP_RN/TCP_RNPRO.HTML
Duncan
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тАО05-22-2007 01:38 PM
тАО05-22-2007 01:38 PM
Re: Receive buffer overrun on NIC (OpenVms Alpha 7.3.2)
with TCPIP V5.4, you had to set a logical
$ DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXECUTIVE TCPIP$STARTUP_CPU_IMAGES "PERF=ALL"
for the scaleable kernel to be used. To find out, if you're running a SMP system, just try:
$ SHOW CPU
While you can try to increase the no. of receive buffers with LANCP> SET DEV/MIN_BUFFER=xxx EIA0 and see, if the problem goes away, to really understand this, one needs to find out, what this counter really indicates.
If there is a chance during this week, I'll ask the LAN engineers during the OpenVMS bootcamp...
Greetings from Nashua,
Volker.
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тАО05-22-2007 06:45 PM
тАО05-22-2007 06:45 PM
Re: Receive buffer overrun on NIC (OpenVms Alpha 7.3.2)
Thanks a lot for the add-on information.
Just confirmed we didn't turn on the Scalable Kernel. I'll turn it on and see any improvement.
As for the SMP, following displayed using 'show cpu':
AlphaServer ES45 Model 2B
(there're 4 CPUs).
Any idea if model 2B == SMP?
Best Regards,
SweeEng
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тАО05-22-2007 08:35 PM
тАО05-22-2007 08:35 PM
Re: Receive buffer overrun on NIC (OpenVms Alpha 7.3.2)
Model 2B does not specify SMP
There are ES45 Models 1,2 and 3
Model 1 supports maximum of 16GB memory, Model 2,3 maximum of 32GB,
Model 1 has less PCI slots.
see http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/download/html/alphaserver_brochure_0704.html
Check for SMP:
$ show cpu/full
and look for
SMP execlet = 3 : Enabled : Streamlined.
which is default for SMP capable systems (2 or more CPUs present).
Regards,
Gerhard
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тАО05-22-2007 10:36 PM
тАО05-22-2007 10:36 PM
Re: Receive buffer overrun on NIC (OpenVms Alpha 7.3.2)
Cool! Confirmed the systems are SMP enabled.
However, just recall that we're using TCPWARE instead of UCX. Is TCPWARE using the same OpenVMS TCPIP Services as the underlying? I.e. the Scalable Kernel still applicable? If not, any idea any performance differences in using TCPWARE instead of UCX?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
SweeEng
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тАО05-23-2007 03:29 AM
тАО05-23-2007 03:29 AM
Re: Receive buffer overrun on NIC (OpenVms Alpha 7.3.2)
The performance kernel doesn't apply to TCPware. You can start by upping the buffers in LANCP. Another point to check is
$show mem/pool/full
Look for increases, a change from original to current size. If you're seeing growth, you might consider using autogen to tune the system. This may or may not have an impact.
Andy