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Subject: Re: BeagleBone slow inbound net I/O
From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On Mar 13, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> =
wrote:

> 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:
>>=20
>>> Greeting-
>>>=20
>>> 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.
>>=20
>>=20
>> The Beaglebone uses a USB NIC so any I/O to/from SD card will be =
competing for resources and potentially slowing things down.
>=20
> No it does not.

My mistake; I was confusing it with the Raspberry Pi.  Network =
performance hasn't been too great on the Raspberry Pi in my experience.  =
Maybe it has improved lately, though.

Cheers,

Paul.