From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 20 12:25:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16970 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:25:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enigami.com (enigami.com [208.140.182.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16934 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:24:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ckempf@enigami.com) Received: from [208.140.182.45] (symphony.enigami.com [208.140.182.45]) by enigami.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA06294; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:23:45 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: ckempfm@enigami.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199803201913.LAA20686@implode.root.com> References: Your message of "Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:57:30 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:16:18 -0500 To: dg@root.com From: Cory Kempf Subject: Re: Pathetic FTP performance Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 14:13 -0500 98.03.20, David Greenman wrote: >>I am getting really pathetic FTP performance across my LAN. From any >>machine to any other machine, I am seeing several hundred k / sec via FTP. >>E.g. from my Mac to my SGI, I see between 300k/s - 1M/s, depending on file >>size. > Look at the input stats on the receiving machine - are you seeing input >errors? It sounds like you might have a bad cable segment. Yes, on looking, it was generating a lot of errors. Taking this idea, I swapped cables with the other machine on my desktop -- a Mac. Now, an interesting thing: this same 'bad' cable was being used without problem from a Mac running variously MacOS and MkLinux. When I swapped cables, the difference was like night and day on the FBSD box. OK, so I tested the 'bad' cable on my Mac... 0% packet loss, FTP speeds of 700 k/s (which is what I normally expect). I presume from this that the intel hardware is not as uh, something. Sensative? forgiving? whatever. Wierd. +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message