From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 20: 3:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD0237C045 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from egravel@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (hybrid-024-221-117-152.phoenix.speedchoice.com [24.221.117.152]) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA24603 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:03:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3963F7B4.7D536B01@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 20:06:28 -0700 From: Emmanuel Gravel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dual-homed machine, performance problems. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have two 3C509b's in my FreeBSD box. One is connected to the net, the other to my internal network. When I use the net from FreeBSD fairly extensively, I get fairly poor performance for transfers between it and other machines in the network (max I've seen is 70KB/s) however it often jumps past 140 KB/s when there's no traffic on the first NIC. I've got a P90 with 32MB of RAM and 64MB swap. I would think I could get rates up to 1MB/s internally without a problem (or at least 800KB/s) but I've never seen it go past about 150KB/s no matter what. What could I do to improve network performance, both internally, and when using both NIC's? Thanks! Emmanuel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message