From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 28 8:11:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A695037B41A for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:11:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA11582; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:11:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fASGBBr14944; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:11:11 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15365.3230.727869.469963@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:11:10 -0700 To: Cc: "'Nate Williams'" , Subject: RE: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? In-Reply-To: <003b01c177ec$21e7c870$020aa8c0@aims.private> References: <15364.38767.82340.347344@caddis.yogotech.com> <003b01c177ec$21e7c870$020aa8c0@aims.private> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I had a similar problem, especially with different FreeBSD 4.x boxes (4.1.1, > 4.2, 4.3, 4.4-stable after dirpref merge) and with Windows NT systems, but > the crap performance was only1 limited to FTP. SSH, NFS and CVS operations > were all fine. We're not using any of the other listed services, but we are using both FTP and WWW, and both show decreased performance. (However, the latter may be a configuration issue, so it may be irrelevant.) >The pre-4.3 boxes are all using RTL8029 cards, and the 4.3+ > boxes are all Intel 8255x-based cards. The laptop has 4.4-stable and a > D-Link DFE-650. The poor performance showed up in interactions with the > 100Mbit/s cards (Intel, D-Link). I'm using an fxp cards, as described in the email to Peter. > They have all disappeared since I've > explicitly set the links to 100Mbit/s with full-duplex. The switches and > hubs are all 10/100 D-Links. I've messed with auto-negotiations. The funny thing is that performance on the LAN segment is quite good, it's that non-LAN performance is poor. > My guess is that the autonegotiation feature of both the fxp and ed drivers > somehow adversely affects FTP. Hmm, I can hard-code and see what happens. I did mess with the autonegotiation stuff initially, and it didn't seem to make any difference. I will try again. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message