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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:17:00 +0100
From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>
To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
Subject: Re: BeagleBone slow inbound net I/O
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On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:34:59AM -0400, Paul Mather wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:26 PM, Brett Wynkoop <freebsd-arm@wynn.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greeting-
> > 
> > It is confirmed, the net I/O is much slower than reading from the SD
> > card.  Here is another run of tar - pipe - tar, but this time the
> > source is the sd card and the destination is still the USB zfs.
> 
> 
> The Beaglebone uses a USB NIC so any I/O to/from SD card will be competing for resources and potentially slowing things down.

No it does not.
AFAIK the Sitara SoC even has a second NIC and can do Gbit, which
is not supported byt the board.
I think some or all of the beagleboards use USB for ethernet.

-- 
B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.