Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:34:15 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Doug White' <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Odd network performance via fxp0 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A6045@site2s1>
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Noted and understood, I don't believe that I ever expected to literally see 100Mb/sec, but 400KB/sec is pathetic (even from a windows machine). That it happens only one way, to me, is baffling. I would believe that if it were just a sheer I/O issue that it would be consistent and only on the one machine, not from any of the 3 machines that I've tested from. Whether this is an actual issue with the BSD machine is yet to be seen, and at the very least I would like to be able to eliminate it as the cause. Maybe I'll install a dual boot on my machine so I can do proper testing, I just hate dual-boots. No comments about reformatting the drive and installing BSD, I have a dedicated BSD box and I have a dedicated windows machine, which is used mostly for games. :^) I do have another box that I was planning on putting 3.1 on, mostly so I can learn the differences before I hose my 2.2.8 box. It only have a 10mbit card, but I can still see if the performance is consistent in both directions. I appreciate the reply and I will look into it being just crappy network performance on the part of windows, which I'm sure is part of the overall lack of performance. -Chris p.s. where have you been? I haven't seen a posing from you in ages! > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug White [SMTP:dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 3:39 PM > To: Christopher Michaels > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List (E-mail) > Subject: RE: Odd network performance via fxp0 > > On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > > > Yes the machines (more than one) are win machines. But no they do not > have > > crappy disk performance. NOT that crappy, both have new drives that > perform > > very well. I'd be pretty pissed if my new 7200 rpm drive was only > moving > > about 400k/sec. > > Windows's network stack, frankly, sucks. Never expect good network > performance from a Microsoft box. Plus, MS has never won awards for > outstanding I/O performance in general. > > If you want to see *real* performance, do a test at 100mbit FDX between 2 > FreeBSD machines with PCI ethernet cards. > > 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
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