From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 17:33:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F27437BD51 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:16:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5QNGQ4W069430; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:16:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g5QNGLQg069429; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:16:21 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:16:21 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: twig les Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Incredibly slow network performance Message-ID: <20020626231621.GD68946@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20020626224543.66567.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020626224543.66567.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 03:45:43PM -0700, twig les wrote: > My NIC is an old 3com 3c589c on a p3-700 Toshiba Tecra > 8100 with 256MB. Top says that the CPU and mem aren't > caught in some runaway problem, so I'm guessing that I > missed some config option somewhere. Does anyone know > where to start troubleshooting this? Eliminate the obvious first: try using a different, known good, network cable. Try using a different port on your switch or hub. Make sure that the card and your network infrastructure agree on whether you're running 10 or 100Mbit and Full or Half duplex. 3c589 uses the ep driver which only supports 10baseT, so check that your switch is showing the correct 10Mb, half duplex setting. Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message