Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 16:09:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Alan Byrne <alan@picard.isocor.ie> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: alan@buster.internet-eireann.ie Subject: Slow ftp transfer times on Ethernet Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.950124154639.15526C@picard.isocor.ie>
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Hi I have just finished installing FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on a Pentium P90. I intend using it as an NFS fileserver for our engineering group. Just after I installed the bindist, I configured the network card (SMC) and started to transfer files via ftp accross our ethernet. The results were very dissapointing. >From other servers (Sequent, SUN, SCO) to the FreeBSD system was very slow - around 30K to 100K/sec transfer rate. >From the FreeBSD server to any other system the transfer rates ranged from 400k to 800k/sec, somewhat more normal. Is this a problem with my hardware or with ftp itself. (I think it's the hardware/configuration myself). During the slow ftp transfers, it seems to grab around 40-80K then pauses, the disk access light flashes, grabs some more, etc.... Hardware description: Pentium P90, Intel Premiere/PCI II (Latest version) BusLogic BT-946C PCI SCSI controller. 32MB Ram 2GByte Seagate Barracuda SCSI Disk 4GByte Seagate Barracuda SCSI Disk Trident TVGA8900D Video Card Exabyte EXB4200 SCSI DAT drive. SMC 8013EWC 16bit Network card (Upgrading to PCI version shortly) This is the first FreeBSD system that I have setup in work (I've two at home), and if this goes well, we will be moving more systems over to FreeBSD, so please help........ Thanks in advance Alan Byrne ISOCOR Ireland. alan@isocor.ie
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