From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 25 16:31:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25FC616A400 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:31:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224FC43D67 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:30:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i1so1537575nzh for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:30:54 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FJ/tHvUCRaXaKdI96fI2IVhPLad7F5OQz+6+mXXtT1E6/jDK9+B9kCef85N6XQOxk1fAI9+jVQFAp91/ljnTJHU4LhzzdM0RYf41yJJgZmhL6c1ulUCJjMSy8xVT+1pzwjgMOIjpw2KfQXA6TO8BPHOejwL2+i6Pw+oRSB57aQc= Received: by 10.37.14.31 with SMTP id r31mr2276250nzi; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.12.11 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:30:54 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet very slow. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:31:00 -0000 On 6/25/06, Sean Bryant wrote: > /dev/zero not exactly the best way to test sending data across the > network. Especially since you'll be reading a 8k chunks. > > I could be wrong, strong possibility that I am. I only got 408mb when > doing a /dev/zero test. I've managed to saturate though. Using other > software that I wrote. > On 6/25/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > What's up with my computer, it's only getting 30MB/s? > > > > hostB: nc -4kl port > /dev/null > > hostA: nc host port < /dev/zero > > 408MByte/s or 408Mbit/s and what measuring stick are you using? I'm trying to rule in/out problems with the disks, I'm only getting ~25MB/s on a 6 disk RAID0 over the network... would it be better to setup an memory backed disk, md(4) , to read from? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/