From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 29 13:50:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F5E16A566 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:50:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joerg@britannica.bec.de) Received: from antivirus.uni-rostock.de (mailrelay1.uni-rostock.de [139.30.8.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83AE243C9D for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:49:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joerg@britannica.bec.de) Received: from antivirus.exch.rz.uni-rostock.de ([127.0.0.1]) by antivirus.uni-rostock.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:49:59 +0100 Received: from antivirus.uni-rostock.de (unverified) by antivirus.exch.rz.uni-rostock.de (Clearswift SMTPRS 5.2.5) with ESMTP id for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:49:58 +0100 Received: from mail.uni-rostock.de ([139.30.8.11]) by antivirus.uni-rostock.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:49:58 +0100 Received: from britannica.bec.de (storm.stura.uni-rostock.de [139.30.252.72]) by mail2.uni-rostock.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.14 (built Aug 8 2006)) with ESMTP id <0J9H00ENSVRA0X@mail.uni-rostock.de> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:49:58 +0100 (MET) Received: by britannica.bec.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5AE713878; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:23:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:23:40 +0100 From: Joerg Sonnenberger In-reply-to: <20061128204732.3e8790fd.vlady@gbservices.biz> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mail-followup-to: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <20061129132340.GC6806@britannica.bec.de> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) References: <20061128204732.3e8790fd.vlady@gbservices.biz> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Nov 2006 13:49:58.0655 (UTC) FILETIME=[425DF8F0:01C713BD] Subject: Re: FreeBSD-6.1/amd64 bge(4) driver performance problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:50:02 -0000 On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:47:32PM +0200, Vladimir Terziev wrote: > It seems the bge(4) driver has severe performance problems (may be > especially in my configuration). > I tried test scp(1) to a remote machine, using one of the BCM5721 NICs. > The average speed which has been reached was 200kBps. Can you try forcing the interface back to 100mbit, half duplex? I've seen issues with a switch before resulting in exactly that kind of performance. Joerg