From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 21 00:35:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25690 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 00:35:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA25642 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 00:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id GAA09530; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 06:37:21 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199810210537.GAA09530@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Network device slowdown? To: matthew@wolfepub.com (Matthew Hagerty) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 06:37:20 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981020224656.007b76b0@firebat.wolfepub.com> from "Matthew Hagerty" at Oct 20, 98 10:46:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The machine has been running for 123 days now and there seems to be a slow > down in the ethernet performance again. I tried a 5MB ftp transfer from > another machine on the same hub and it took over 2 minutes! That same > transfer from another machine takes about 9 seconds. I know I should ethernet cards tend to break sometimes, and you might see intermittent failures with long packets (i am assuming you have not switched hardware). Also, slow transfers are typical problems with misconfigured interrupts. a tcpdump from some other machine on the same segment would help tracking the problem. luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message