From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 17:19:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 977A916A41F for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:19:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A9D13C45E for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:19:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a73so2703005pye for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:19:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=n/NaqrR9QqgSn8NQl115+BHdqlFiYnAeBd9nU3mbsh5BSbZd1OcJt/tieGgHv1b8pDhCmxqc+HOZBHYiWgfpSqGRqJYnw360KrXmkOE9hd/Z/7LOoggk0DA6gakhNgImHFpjadpkqtv3HliO6WOWh5M0yskxwXkB8O3wZI5hHAM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TEyZWLeHIBx/AzsvK0GXZSo40fjRGgt63zYDlspNo6cOAqkngUhJgo5LXtN/uauTEJ4IQphTSWGNlfnYaO6PS3XoE9GzyvEkVTfUeAfpLIh9rHNr9ITQeyPo+BAXCIwEIc2KMmkL8lb8uWRenw0d5jodL+0LFXArkpvPMYgKgxA= Received: by 10.65.107.10 with SMTP id j10mr2919959qbm.1184086520642; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.145.20 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57d710000707100955l4d752b22s6afdebf499934171@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:55:20 -0700 From: "pete wright" To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?=" In-Reply-To: <469393CC.9070802@broadpark.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <469393CC.9070802@broadpark.no> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! FreeBSD: 88.78 KBps, Linux: 624.95 KBps X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:19:50 -0000 On 7/10/07, Kyrre Nyg=E5rd wrote: > Hello. > > My friend is switching to Linux because FreeBSD is failing on him. > > When downloading a file from a FreeBSD box and a Linux box on the same > network, the FreeBSD box got 88.78 KBps whereas the Linux got 624.95 > Kbps. I have no idea what's wrong, but my man isn't really into good > information design (e.g. taking something complex and making it easy), > so his system is a mess. Maybe some of you can help me locate where the > problem's at? > It's probably best to start at the basics and work up: 1) uname -ar on both systems 2) do both systems have identical hardware? 3)what are you coping over, lots of small files, one large file. i.e. what kind of benchmark are you using? that's the best place to start. it looks like you have a ton of pf stuff going on, and have made many changes to your kernel via sysctl. i didn't really look at that stuff closely - that info is kinda pointless w/o the basic hardware, OS data. -p --=20 ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group