From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 19 13:55: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C320714FF6 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:55:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA14921; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 16:55:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:55:42 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Brian's Mail" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Performance Tuning In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Brian's Mail wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to find some tips/info on tuning a server for web and ftp > performance. I currently have a machine with a PII 300, 256 MB RAM, a > Netgear FA310TX network card and an adaptec 2940 UW controller. I can only --^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ augh! > get about 2500 K/sec over a 100 MB network. The machine is connected to a > Linksys 10/100 rackmount hub. I think that I should be able to do better -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ double augh! > than this without a problem. If there are any links or other information I > would be extremely grateful. no wonder, combine cheap network hardware with a cheap hub.... If you want real performance grab a Intel EtherExpress Pro card, or a 3com card (as a second choice). Ditch the hub, hubs only give you half duplex, basically you can't transmit and send at the same time, this can kill performance, pick up a switch, preferably a cisco or 3com, maybe even a Bay, but I've heard bad things about Bay. At home on my machines all Intel NICs i can get over 10MB/sec, it's worth the extra 30-40$ for both speed and reliability. (I have a Hawking 8port 100mbit switch, but I wouldn't recommend it as it sometimes doens't comeback from a power cycles unless I cycle it many times... blech, then again it was only 219$) In production we use Intel cards almost exclusively along with cisco switches. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net] systems administrator and programmer Win Telecom - http://www.wintelcom.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message