From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 19 0:59:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1AA71501A; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:59:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA26862; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:57:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:57:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, tim@storm.digital-rain.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? In-Reply-To: <19990719000408.61A3714C7F@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > I guess I forgot about the overhead. I've tested between two > > FreeBSD machines using Intel Pro100+ NIC cards connected to a Cisco 2924XL > > Switch Full Duplex and never seen anything close to the speeds. > > using netperfv2pl3 and FreeBSD 2.2.8 on 300MHz PII with fxp > cards (all from memory), i routinely get TCP_STREAM to pushd 94Mbps. > > i use these machines for stressing every else we have at work. Hmmm, has anyone tried a full duplex test before? Since it seems like the bottleneck is really the speed of the disks.. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message