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Date:      Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:04:55 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: send performance of rl(4)
Message-ID:  <20081214150455.GA11318@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20081214154452.O49468@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <20081214143905.GA9275@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20081214154452.O49468@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:45:35PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Transferring files from my desktop to my laptop with rsync (over a
> > point-to-point netowork connection) is extremely slow, maxing out at
> > around 50 kB/s and often dropping to 0. Both systems show hardly any
> > activity. Is this normal for rsync running over a network? There is a
>=20
> no.

Good, so there is presumably something I can fix.
=20
> > rsync daemon running on the laptop. Network interface on the laptop is
> > xl(4), the desktop is rl(4).
>=20
> it may be problem with autoconfiguration of speed and half/full duplex.
> try setting it manually on one or both sides.

Both were showing 100baseTX full-duplex on autoselect. Setting both
manually with 'ifconfig [rl1|xl0] media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex'
didn't improve things.

> it's unfortunately common

:-(

Would swapping the rl(4) card with a xl(4) card help? I've got one in my
spare parts bin. I presume two xl(4) cards would have no trouble talking
to eachother. =20

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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