[Soekris] FreeBSD on Geode

[Jed Clear]

On Wed Nov 19 16:47 , PatrickLamaizière  sent:
>Le Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:26:43 +0100,
>Matthias Luft mluft at informatik.uni-mannheim.de> a écrit :
>
>> And this is exactly what I'm planning to do: building a small
>> homeserver on a Geode LX.
>> So my main concern is about the performance: Could anyone tell me the,
>> how much throughtput on a 100Mbit network via scp is possible? This
>> would be a great clue for me!
>
>With FreeBSD Current on my net5501:
>Around 3.0 MB/s, with a patch upon openssl to make it uses the AES
>engine of the geode : 5.5 MB/s

I can confirm 3.2 MByte/sec scping a 3.3MB kernel file of a CF card.  No patches,
just a NanoBSD build with a custom minimized kernel.  If I read 100MB out of
/dev/zero with ssh, it goes down to 2.9.

-Jed

net5501# uname -a
FreeBSD net5501 6.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p4 #0: Mon Sep 29 21:05:32 EDT
2008     root at fbsdk7.example.local:/usr/obj/nanobsd.custom/usr/src/sys/FOO  i386

macmini2:~ foo$ scp foo at net5501:/boot/kernel/kernel /dev/null
Password:
kernel                                        100% 3277KB   3.2MB/s   00:01    
macmini2:~ foo$ ssh -l foo net5501 dd if=/dev/zero count=102400 bs=1024 > /dev/null
Password:
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 35.934339 secs (2918033 bytes/sec)
macmini2:~ foo$