From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 08:23:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A93316A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:23:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.daemonground.de (daemonground.de [217.160.129.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C651E43D31 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:23:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sascha@daemonground.de) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.daemonground.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1D7F89FFF; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:23:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.daemonground.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (daemonground.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27157-07; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:23:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from area51.cc-web.ma.schlund.de (p4b23e3d4.np.schlund.de [212.227.35.75]) (using SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.daemonground.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A596789260; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:23:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Sascha Holzleiter To: Doug Russell In-Reply-To: <20040920104115.P94638-100000@mxb.saturn-tech.com> References: <20040920104115.P94638-100000@mxb.saturn-tech.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:23:42 +0200 Message-Id: <1095755022.35597.5.camel@area51.cc-web.ma.schlund.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.0FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at daemonground.de X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:46:07 +0000 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_5 nfs performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:23:53 -0000 On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 10:43 -0600, Doug Russell wrote: > Try changing to another network card from the VIA. Many of those vr cards > are very buggy and difficult to get to work properly. > > Try an fxp (Intel EtherExpress) or an xl (3Com 3c905, etc.) or something > if you have one on hand and see if that makes it work. This seems to be the actual problem. I tried all the other proposals like setting the media type manually which didn't change anything and tuning the client which gave me a doubled rate of 1MB/s for server to client transfers. So I took the chance to insert a good old fxp nic into the server which solved the problem. With fxp the rates are about 10Mb/s even with nfs. So there really seems to be a glitch with nfs and vr cards on RELENG_5 unless this one is utterly broken or broken by design which I can't rule out as this is another VIA product ;) Thanks for all your responses. -- Sascha