From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 10:55:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B6B16A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.inode.at (smtp-03.inode.at [62.99.194.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25B443FF5 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mad-ml@madness.at) Received: from [81.223.23.235] (port=47680 helo=rhea.madness.at) by smtp.inode.at with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10) id 19xVfI-00062F-00 for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:55:33 +0200 Received: from madness.at ([192.168.17.1]) by rhea.madness.at (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8B3M6In018285; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 05:22:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3F60B2B4.7040709@madness.at> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:36:52 +0200 From: Alexander Marx User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030902 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Straiton References: <00b201c37888$cec24770$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> In-Reply-To: <00b201c37888$cec24770$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box? X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:55:43 -0000 John Straiton wrote: >>Look at network errors (netstat -i), duplex mismatches (link >>lights on switch vs. what ifconfig tells you), and network >>load (i.e. production is on a 10Mb hub, development is on a >>100Mb switch). Etc., etc., etc. > > > They are all connected to the same switch, and the Cisco IOS reports > zero errors on any of the 3 interfaces. Even when the production machine > was live, it would have less than 3Mb/sec load on a 100Mbit/FullDuplex > network. > thats great and all .. but does the server also report zero interface errors? (output of netstat -in) ? we had lots of problems with cisco switches and half/full-duplex missmatches ... even though the switches thought everything was fine. just a guess, alex.