Michael VInce wrote: > I reinstalled the netperf to make sure its the latest. > > I have also decided to upgrade Server-C (the i386 5.4 box) to 6.0RC1 and > noticed it gave a large improvement of network performance with a SMP > kernel. > > As with the network setup ( A --- B --- C ) with server B being the > gateway, doing a basic 'fetch' from the gateway (B) to the Apache server > (C) it gives up to 700mbits/sec transfer performance, doing a fetch from > server A thus going through the gateway gives slower but still decent > performance of up to 400mbits/sec.
Are you by any chance using PCI NIC's? PCI Bus is limited to somewhere around 1 Gbit/s. So if you consider; Theoretical maxium = ( 1Gbps - pci_overhead ) -- Sten Daniel Sørsdal _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
