From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 17:38:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA23821 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:38:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from server.verso.com (hi1.meer.net [140.174.164.180]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA23815 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:38:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from cynosure.stanford.edu (cynosure.Stanford.EDU [36.161.0.14]) by server.verso.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA00221 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:36:07 -0800 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:36:07 -0800 Message-Id: <199603210136.RAA00221@server.verso.com> X-Sender: hussein@server.verso.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Hussein Kanji Subject: Slow FTP & web rates/network speed Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We've got a Pentium 133 with 96 megs of memory and a SMC PCI Ethernet card hooked up to a T1. With that hardware, we'd imagine that ftp transfers should be flying... but no such luck. We have an anonymous FTP server set up on this machine and it takes care of about 5 hosts on the Web that are hit pretty hard. Running top, most of the memory gets cached for NCSA 1.5, but the system is about 98-99% idle. Each site sees about 100,000 hits/day. I've recompiled the kernel several times, with the following options maxusers 256 nmbclusters=4096 to get it to speed up (and cuz I thought I might have run out of mbufs). I've also had complaints that people are getting dropped connections on ftp and the transfer rates are really low. Any ideas on how to speed things up? Please email them to me. Thanks.