Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 03:08:18 +0300 (MSK) From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru> To: w8sdz@Mail.Petersen.Net (Keith Petersen) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor Internet throughput on FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <199912310008.DAA24439@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <19991229233921.w8sdz@Mail.Petersen.Net> from "Keith Petersen" at "Dec 29, 99 11:39:21 pm"
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Keith Petersen writes: > I just installed FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on a 400 mHz Pentium II machine > with 256 megs of RAM with an ethernet connection to a Livingston 128kb > ISDN Office Router. > > My old machine is a 100 mhz Pentium with 64 megs of RAM running > FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE. It also has an ethernet connection to the > same router. > > The two machines have excellent throughput to each other but file > transfers to and from a host running FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE located 600 > miles away on the same Internet backbone differs greatly. Using the > same 198Kb file for both tests here are the results of the outgoing FTP: > > FreeBSD 3.3 = 2.2 Kb/second > FreeBSD 2.2 = 47 Kb/second I have seen that on any FBSD version if NIC works not by interrupts but by timeouts. This happen for example if you have not interrupt number proper configured or some another deffect. > sysctl shows that both hosts are using essentially the same net.inet > settings. > > ifconfig shows both ethernet interfaces are 1500 MTU. > > I have tried transfers between the new machine and other hosts in > various parts of the US and observed the same poor performance. It has > made installation of various ports a real pain when the distribution > file was needed. > > Help! > > Keith > -- > Keith Petersen, President & CEO > Petersen Data Management, Inc. > w8sdz@Mail.Petersen.Net > Voice and Fax: (904) 304-3349 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message > -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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