From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 23 17:58:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56FC816A400 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:58:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list@deeboz.ca) Received: from deeboz.ca (S0106000102685618.cg.shawcable.net [68.147.195.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AFDF13C468 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:58:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list@deeboz.ca) Received: by deeboz.ca (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 83CA9F8B0A6; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:58:38 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:58:38 -0700 From: Sally Janghos To: Eygene Ryabinkin Message-ID: <20070323175838.GA94047@deeboz.ca> References: <20070322171602.GA71746@deeboz.ca> <20070323072959.GX14837@codelabs.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070323072959.GX14837@codelabs.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where to troubleshoot Intel PRO/1000 performance problems? X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:58:40 -0000 Eygene, Both machines are reporting a 1Gb link: media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX ) Thanks for you help though. On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:47:54AM +0300, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Sally, good day. > > Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:16:02AM -0700, Sally Janghos wrote: > > I'm looking for some suggestions on where to start troubleshooting > > performance issues on a Intel PRO 1000 card. > > > > It's installed in a box with the following configuration: > > FreeBSD 6.1 > > AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ (1741.42-MHz 686-class CPU) > > Dell CERC SATA RAID 2 > > > > The file transfer(ftp/smb/scp) speeds from/to this machine do not > > appear to go above 10Mb. > > Assuming that you're talking about MBytes/sec there is a chance > that your network link is using 100 MBit/sec full-duplex mode instead > of 1Gbit/sec. Try to do 'ifconfig | grep media' on the FreeBSD box > and watch for the speed regime specification. > > > The other machine doing the transfers has similar specs (same > > Ethernet Card) but is a Windows XP box. > > Windows should report the interface speed too: unplug the cable, plug it > again and watch for the fancy popup on the taskbar. Or check the interface > properties box. > -- > Eygene