Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:42:50 -0700 From: Frank Jahnke <jahnke@sonatabio.com> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terrible hme throughput Message-ID: <1159389770.850.244.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com>
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I forgot to cc: the list, so here it is. On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 16:01 -0400, Lucas Holt wrote: > A few suggestions come to mind. Try another protocol and see what > type of transfer speeds you get. It there one you might suggest? > Test the performance of your hard > drive reads/writes. Its possible the drive controller is not using > udma for example. Some of the sun machines only support wdma which > limits transfers to 16MB/s if it happens to use IDE. Granted, this > doesn't explain the performance entirely but if there are a lot of > interrupts for disk IO, it may slow down your network performance. It is a SCSI drive using 20MB/s transfers at the controller. It has been tested and it works properly (about 15MB/s speeds). Though not fast, that should be plenty for a 100Mb/s network (typo in original post). Frank
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