From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 19 23:37:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw00.execpc.com (mailgw00.execpc.com [169.207.1.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F57914CB6 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 23:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bellefso@execpc.com) Received: from pop00.execpc.com (pop00.execpc.com [169.207.1.114]) by mailgw00.execpc.com (8.9.1) id BAA32331; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 01:37:23 -0500 Received: from packfan (pern-2-143.mdm.mkt.execpc.com [169.207.90.209]) by pop00.execpc.com (8.8.8) id BAA17971; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 01:37:22 -0500 From: "Brian's Mail" To: "Doug White" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Performance Tuning Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 01:38:33 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have tried a few different cards. I have a C3 and C6.1 digital chipset, and the newer PNIC D1 and D2 revisions. I have gotten the same results with all the cards, within 100-200 K/sec anyways. I am going to replace the hub with a Intel switch and see what happens. I think the cards should be able to do better than 20 Mb/sec on a switch. Thanks, brian -----Original Message----- From: Doug White [mailto:dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 12:35 AM To: Brian's Mail Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Performance Tuning 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