From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 19 22:35:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F4114D95 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:35:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA85608; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:35:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:35:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White 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: > 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 > 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 > than this without a problem. If there are any links or other information I > would be extremely grateful. I don't know what the other guy has against Netgear cards (they're rev C3 Digitals, right?), but that LinkSys hub is killing you. Beyond being half-duplex, LinkSys equipment is sub-par performance-wise. Swap the hub with a Ethernet switch (like the HP ProCurve series) and watch the throughput fly. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message