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Date:      Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:22:22 +0200
From:      Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   poor performance Solaris<->Freebsd 2.2.6 BETA march 12th
Message-ID:  <3535250D.EDAC3E73@partitur.se>

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Hi,

I have a Solaris Workstation Ultra 1 170Mhz and a FreeBSD server Pentium
Pro 200Mhz, w/ 2940 SCSI and vx0 ethernet interface manually set to 100
Mbps, on a 100 Mbps LAN. Last week (maybe since upgrading 2.2.5 Stable
from december to 2.2.6 BETA, beginning of March) I have experenced bad
network performance between the two.

Here's an ftp transer of on huge file from Sun to Freebsd 2.2.6 BETA:

12621935 bytes sent in 1.3e+02 seconds (95 Kbytes/s)

Here's the same file ftp'd from the Sun machine to a 2.2.2-stable
pentium on the same LAN but running 10 mbps (we have a 100 mbps hub with
a downlink).

12621935 bytes sent in 13 seconds (9.6e+02 Kbytes/s)

Better... Really good, I'd say ;-)

Now, I try from 2.2.2 to 2.2.6 BETA:

12621935 bytes sent in 13.76 seconds (895.56 Kbytes/s)

Also quite alright.


So, what can this be? It happens on nfs, ftp, amanda, you name it, so it
seems like it's the tcp/ip or ethernet stuff somehow. This is beyond my
level.
One thing I'm supecting is that I don't use full duplex with the
ethernet card on the 2.2.6 server since this crashed the machine while
booting; I had to manually set it to half duples (simplex?). Haven't
tried resetting this, but I will as soon as I can take it down.

/Palle


> ifconfig -a
vx0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 193.219.246.210 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast
193.219.246.255
        atalk 65280.91 range 0-65534 phase 2 broadcast 0.255
        ether 00:60:97:9a:b4:a6 

rc.conf has

tcp_extensions="YES"            # Allow RFC1323 & RFC1644 extensions (or
NO).

for what it is worth...

ftp> get ie4setup
local: ie4setup remote: ie4setup
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for ie4setup (193.219.246.210,40048) (12621935
bytes).
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
12660165 bytes received in 167.10 seconds (73.99 KB/s)
ftp> put ie4setup
local: ie4setup remote: ie4setup
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for ie4setup (193.219.246.210,40049).
100% |*******************************************************| 12363
KB    --:-- ETA
226 Transfer complete.
12659956 bytes sent in 10.33 seconds (1.17 MB/s)

BTW, the huge file is m$ internet explorer for solaris, which throws me
out of my CDE session and kills all apps immediately each time I try it.
So much for commercial software ;-)

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