Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 14:31:53 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> To: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vr speed issues Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0612041430491.13208@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> In-Reply-To: <45747292.2020004@wcborstel.com> References: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0611282212530.517@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com><457012AE.8050700@zeroth.org> <Pine.OSX.4.61.0612011546530.517@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <001d01c71597$69cbd700$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <4570CF59.9060904@zeroth.org> <45747292.2020004@wcborstel.com>
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jorn Argelo wrote: > Jamie Clark wrote: >> Steven Hartland wrote: >>> Charles Sprickman wrote: >>>>> Backing up the 4.10 box was within an acceptable margin of wire >>>>> speed (~8MB/s on 100M ethernet) given that a router was in the >>>>> middle. That's roughly how the box has always performed. >>>>> >>>>> After installing 6.1_RELEASE and updating to RELENG_6 I started the >>>>> restore. Maxed out at about 380kB/s. Now I tested the backup speed >>>>> again and it has also dropepd to 380k. >>> >>> That speed is indicative of a FD / HD mismatch between the switch >>> and the NIC if its hard coded try setting auto if its auto try >>> hardcoding. N.B. Ensure both ends are set in the same way i.e. hard/auto >>> or problems start. >> Both are auto and show 100 FD. The switch port stats show zeros on all the >> error counters. >> >> Good thinking though. I wouldn't yet rule out an external influence as I >> have not performed any in-depth diagnosis of this - but I can't think of >> anything obvious aside from the OS upgrade. >> >> -Jamie >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Well my two embedded vr NICs work just fine. I get 8 - 9 MByte / second with > FTP, using vsftpd, and 3-4 Mbyte / sec with SCP. Though this could also be > current CPU issues, as the box is quite busy and the Via C3 isn't all that > fast. I am running 6.2-PRERELEASE. Also, did you try device polling? Maybe > that helps, although I currently don't have it in my kernel configuration. > > Here's an ifconfig output, let me know if you need anything else. Can you snip the relevant section of "pciconf -vl" to see the chip version? It seems like this only happens with some of the Via Rhine II chips. Thanks, Charles > [user@host] ~> ifconfig > > vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > ether 00:40:63:df:e5:ee > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > vr1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 00:40:63:df:e5:4e > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > > Cheers, > > Jorn > > > >
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