Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:31:35 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network? Message-ID: <cb5206420604260531t426920a9ndaeee986c4dece1e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200604260705.23623.jhorne@dfwlp.com> References: <20060426031606.33136.qmail@web33302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <274988B5-AE3C-4F97-A811-E9BC1F43A580@shire.net> <200604260705.23623.jhorne@dfwlp.com>
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On 4/26/06, Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.com> wrote: > a few years back, i had a gigabit fiber switch, and 2 intel gigabit fiber > cards that i put in my 2 fastest computers (at the time, dual p3 1000 and > dual p3 933). they both had 10k rpm ultra160 SCSI drives. the fastest i > could get for continuous transfer (i made some gigantic zip files contain= ing > several .iso files) was about 250mbit. No wonder, really. I bet that hard drives were the bottleneck. Today 2-3 cheap SATA drives can easily saturate gigabit links. And if you enable jumbo frames, then CPU will be idle on large file transfers.
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