From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 17 2:10:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spade.pacific.net.sg (spade.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB68837B40C for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 02:10:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg) Received: from pop4.pacific.net.sg (pop4.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.139]) by spade.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id f7H9AEM18872; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:10:14 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pacific.net.sg ([203.208.143.98]) by pop4.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id f7H9AAJ21629; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:10:14 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <3B7CE0D7.2050209@pacific.net.sg> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:16:07 +0800 From: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: zh-TW,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kory Hamzeh Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very slow Ethernet performance References: <000901c126bd$edf33ce0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I suggest you should manuallu set your Ethernet card to the appropriate speed and duplex mode which synchronize with your router or switch of the LAN port . It may improve the performance in term of the speed . Kory Hamzeh wrote: >I just brought up a 4.3-RELEASE system and I'm getting very poor Ethernet >performance. I've attached the dmesg file at the end of this message so give >an idea of the system config. Essential, it is a 800MHZ P3 system with 256M >ram, two UDMA 100 IDE drives, a SMC EZNET (SMC1121TX) PCI Ethernet Card, and >a PCI Video card. Pings from machines on the same net take about half a >second. traceroute doesn't show any network loops. netstat doesn't show any >errors. Other systems on the network are getting very reasonable >performance. > >oamcs:/var/log #39 ifconfig rl0 >rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 199.33.206.5 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 199.33.206.63 > inet6 fe80::2e0:29ff:fe85:9620%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > ether 00:e0:29:85:96:20 > media: autoselect (none) status: active > supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX >10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX > >Any ideas on what might be going on? Where can I start looking? > >Thanks, >Kory > >dmesg files follows: >Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. >Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. >FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 > jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC >Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz >CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (804.03-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x683 Stepping = 3 > >Features=0x383f9ffPAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> >real memory = 268349440 (262060K bytes) >avail memory = 256897024 (250876K bytes) >Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc044d000. >Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled >md0: Malloc disk >npx0: on motherboard >npx0: INT 16 interface >pcib0: on motherboard >pci0: on pcib0 >pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 >pci1: on pcib1 >pci1: at 0.0 irq 11 >pcib2: at device 30.0 on pci0 >pci2: on pcib2 >rl0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem >0xf3800000-0xf38000ff irq 9 at device 9.0 on pci2 >rl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:29:85:96:20 >miibus0: on rl0 >rlphy0: on miibus0 >rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto >pci2: (vendor=0x1102, dev=0x0002) at 11.0 irq 9 >pci2: (vendor=0x1102, dev=0x7002) at 11.1 >isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0 >isa0: on isab0 >atapci0: port 0xb800-0xb80f at device 31.1 on >pci0 >ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 >ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 >uhci0: port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 5 at device >31.2 on pci0 >uhci0: (New UHCI DeviceId=0x24428086) >usb0: on uhci0 >usb0: USB revision 1.0 >uhub0: (0x24428086) UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 >uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered >pci0: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2443) at 31.3 irq 10 >uhci1: port 0xb000-0xb01f irq 9 at device >31.4 on pci0 >uhci1: (New UHCI DeviceId=0x24448086) >usb1: on uhci1 >usb1: USB revision 1.0 >uhub1: (0x24448086) UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 >uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered >uhub2: ALCOR Generic USB Hub, class 9/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 >uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered >fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 >fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold >fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 >atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 >atkbd0: flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 >kbd0 at atkbd0 >psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 >psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 >vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 >sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 >sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> >sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 >sio0: type 16550A >sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 >sio1: type 16550A >ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 >ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode >ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold >plip0: on ppbus0 >lpt0: on ppbus0 >lpt0: Interrupt-driven port >ppi0: on ppbus0 >ad0: 29314MB [59560/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 >ad1: 43979MB [89355/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100 >acd0: CD-RW at ata1-master using PIO4 >ast0: TAPE at ata1-slave using PIO4 >Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message