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Date:      Mon, 09 Jun 2003 14:49:31 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Slow disk write speeds over network
Message-ID:  <3EE4E4CB.4060108@centtech.com>
References:  <3EE4E156.6030603@centtech.com> <20030609194705.GJ65470@perrin.int.nxad.com>

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Sean Chittenden wrote:
>>Ok, I have a file server (NFS) running FreeBSD 4.8-RC1, which is having 
>>incredibly slow disk write speeds.  Locally, doing something like:
>>dd if=/dev/zero of=/partition/testfile
>>Shows 14MB/s - which is what I expect..
> 
> 
> Check your cabling... you may have a bad pair in your cable on your
> send wires, or at least a crummy pair with high resistance.  See if
> netstat -i has any errors listed.  A change in performance that
> dramatic and only in one direction is disturbing and doesn't sound
> like a kernel or software issue, though I could be quite wrong.

Well, I don't believe that it is a problem - I have 4 gigabit network 
cards in the machine (connected to 4 different networks), and all act 
this same way - all use different types of cables too.  I've also tried 
several different client machines.

Eric


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