From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 01:27:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 205F516A403 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 01:27:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ECA743D5C for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 01:27:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id l1so171805nzf for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 18:27:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hsQHZzuGVMaFWC641Wle+CWBacZApOV4bPQkFO4P3GL+CCZ18R3+4YF6Vo9IUf4OGnJNXjItmx0Hc4jepsq3ZLFn2iNLETTDvM2HSXuguE+c4zzrW9tqfPjdj3i+6Kklk6JYb6nMzxvMZ37n2ojiC9CzzYLvfVzYReUsv414MzQ= Received: by 10.64.114.10 with SMTP id m10mr387961qbc; Mon, 15 May 2006 18:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.150.9 with HTTP; Mon, 15 May 2006 18:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 18:27:36 -0700 From: "Atom Powers" To: "Gunter Wambaugh" In-Reply-To: <2EF50459-DD90-44EF-A905-DF324DE55CF3@six-two.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <2EF50459-DD90-44EF-A905-DF324DE55CF3@six-two.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth Troubleshooting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 01:27:41 -0000 On 5/15/06, Gunter Wambaugh wrote: > I have been having this off and on problem with my FreeBSD server for > some time now, and I haven't been able to track down the cause. > Bottom line: network throughput between local boxes is around 200KB/ > s on a 100MBs network. This will last for a few hours and then > quietly return to the ~2MB/s I am used to. (Speed according to > scp). I have used netstat -anf inet, sockstat -4, ps auxww, and top > to see what is running, but I see nothing obvious. I do see the > occasional > > fxp0: link state changed to DOWN > fxp0: link state changed to UP > Sounds to me like a physical layer problem to me: bad cable, bad interface port, etc. --=20 -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--