Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:51:36 +0100 From: "Markie" <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 -> 5.2.1, drop in hard disk ornetworkperformance? Message-ID: <000f01c428bc$5e2f5720$f700000a@ape> References: <000b01c428b4$42529830$f700000a@ape> <001101c428b7$2fd06810$f700000a@ape>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Markie" <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:14 PM Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 -> 5.2.1, drop in hard disk ornetworkperformance? | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Markie" <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com> | To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> | Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:53 PM | Subject: Home server upgrade 4.9 -> 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or | networkperformance? | | | | Hello everyone! | | | | I just upgraded my home server frmo 4.9-R-p3 to 5.2.1-R after having a | few | | problems with modems and random hard lockups(?). | | | | Well, first off the upgrade didn't solve this and I can still reliably | make | | the box freeze with a new modem I bought which I hoped would cure the | | problem... when infact it's 10x worse with that modem :o) Has anyone got | | any ideas as to what could be causing this? The network card for the | | internal side is an fxp card and the network card the modem is attached | to | | is an older 10megabit vx card (3com Etherlink III). | | | | I can't really think of any other information to provide right now but I | | really would be grateful for some prompting of more info and a bit of | help! | | My last few emails to questions about the hard lock ups didn't get any | | replies if I remember rightly :o) | | | | Aside from that, I just copied a 400 meg file over samba and it really | did | | seem incredibly slow compared to when it was running 4.9. It took | agessssss | | to untar the backup 1.5gig file too! Is there anything I am supposed to | | tweak here? | | I am thinking about just reinstalling 4.9 again but I would like to avoid | | that if I can, as it would be alot of time wasted :o) I don't have any | | numbers for this unfortuantly either, it just feels and seems a hell of | | alot slower! For instance, when I was copying this file and tried to ssh | in | | from my windows machine it just sat there for ages doing (apparently) | | nothing! | | | | Thanks! | | | | Well I was just using bmon from ports to monitor the speed and copying a | file to the box over samba is dramatically slower than copying from it: | | Copying a 1.5gig backup tar from the freebsd machine to my box is around | 6-7 meg a second | Copying a 600 odd meg file to the freebsd machine from my box is around | only 1-2 meg a second! | | I do seem to remember having this kind of problem ages ago when I used | Linux. Before installing 5.2.1 I did enable plug and play in BIOS (it hung | with that turned on using 4.9, not with 5.2.1 though) so I will try | disabling that either later or tomorrow morning to see if that fixes my | issue! Could it be that which is causing it? | | Other than that I don't think I have had any major issues with the install | yet :o) Well... except for it didn't solve my hard lockup problem like I | hoped it would have. Seems like it isn't a hard disk performance drop | though :o) | Ok, well, I just rebooted and put plug and play os back to disabled but it's the same... so I guess this must have something to do with it being a newer version of samba (same config as before though) or freebsd? Anyone else seem anything like this before?
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