From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 19:31:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F130A16A416 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:31:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171C043C9D for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:31:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: (qmail 95997 invoked by uid 0); 4 Dec 2006 19:31:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (spork@bway.net@216.220.116.154) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 4 Dec 2006 19:31:46 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 14:31:53 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman X-X-Sender: spork@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com To: Jorn Argelo In-Reply-To: <45747292.2020004@wcborstel.com> Message-ID: References: <457012AE.8050700@zeroth.org> <001d01c71597$69cbd700$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <4570CF59.9060904@zeroth.org> <45747292.2020004@wcborstel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vr speed issues 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: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:31:48 -0000 On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jorn Argelo wrote: > Jamie Clark wrote: >> Steven Hartland wrote: >>> Charles Sprickman wrote: >>>>> Backing up the 4.10 box was within an acceptable margin of wire >>>>> speed (~8MB/s on 100M ethernet) given that a router was in the >>>>> middle. That's roughly how the box has always performed. >>>>> >>>>> After installing 6.1_RELEASE and updating to RELENG_6 I started the >>>>> restore. Maxed out at about 380kB/s. Now I tested the backup speed >>>>> again and it has also dropepd to 380k. >>> >>> That speed is indicative of a FD / HD mismatch between the switch >>> and the NIC if its hard coded try setting auto if its auto try >>> hardcoding. N.B. Ensure both ends are set in the same way i.e. hard/auto >>> or problems start. >> Both are auto and show 100 FD. The switch port stats show zeros on all the >> error counters. >> >> Good thinking though. I wouldn't yet rule out an external influence as I >> have not performed any in-depth diagnosis of this - but I can't think of >> anything obvious aside from the OS upgrade. >> >> -Jamie >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Well my two embedded vr NICs work just fine. I get 8 - 9 MByte / second with > FTP, using vsftpd, and 3-4 Mbyte / sec with SCP. Though this could also be > current CPU issues, as the box is quite busy and the Via C3 isn't all that > fast. I am running 6.2-PRERELEASE. Also, did you try device polling? Maybe > that helps, although I currently don't have it in my kernel configuration. > > Here's an ifconfig output, let me know if you need anything else. Can you snip the relevant section of "pciconf -vl" to see the chip version? It seems like this only happens with some of the Via Rhine II chips. Thanks, Charles > [user@host] ~> ifconfig > > vr0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > ether 00:40:63:df:e5:ee > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > status: active > vr1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 00:40:63:df:e5:4e > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > status: active > > Cheers, > > Jorn > > > >