Re: strange network performace

2001-10-22 Thread Erwan Arzur
> > show us the output of "ifconfig -a" on each box. > Yeah ... did you try to force media opt to 100baseTX full duplex w/ ifconfig ? I had once a lot of problems connecting 3C905 (XL) cards to 3COM switches, until i tried to force the negociation ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: strange network performace

2001-10-08 Thread Eric Anderson
Thanks for the great help on this. It's hard to find any really good data on tweaking these kinds of things, to I mess with things (and go off suggestions from others) until I see benefits, and test from there. I haven't hit any problems from them yet, but I'm sure they are on their way. On

Re: strange network performace

2001-10-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Eric Anderson wrote: > > Oh, well, I thought you said "10mb/s", not "10MB/s" .. that makes > it a bit different. I wonder if it could still be a tcp window > size or something.. Try these sysctl's on C: > vfs.nfs.gatherdelay=0 > vfs.nfs.async=1 > vfs.vmiodirenable=1 Alfred stated that he had se

Re: strange network performace

2001-10-08 Thread Daniel Frazier
Danny Braniss wrote: > setup: > host A: dual pentium III/1GHz (Dell 2450) > host B: dual pentium III/950MHz (Intel STL2) > host C: Pentium III/1GHz (Dell GX150) > > all connected at 100Mgb full duplex > all three are running FreeBSD 4.4. > > all three have identica

Re: strange network performace

2001-10-08 Thread Eric Anderson
heheh.. well, that definitely could be it.. Let me know what you find out.. Eric Danny Braniss wrote: > > > Oh, well, I thought you said "10mb/s", not "10MB/s" .. that makes it a bit >different. I wonder if it could still be a tcp window size or something.. Try these >sysctl's on C: > ...

Re: strange network performace

2001-10-08 Thread Danny Braniss
> Oh, well, I thought you said "10mb/s", not "10MB/s" .. that makes it a bit >different. I wonder if it could still be a tcp window size or something.. Try these >sysctl's on C: ... i will, but im beginning to believe that it's memory related, not the quantity (they all have over 256M) but qua

Re: strange network performace

2001-10-08 Thread Eric Anderson
Oh, well, I thought you said "10mb/s", not "10MB/s" .. that makes it a bit different. I wonder if it could still be a tcp window size or something.. Try these sysctl's on C: vfs.nfs.gatherdelay=0 vfs.nfs.async=1 vfs.vmiodirenable=1 kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=2097152 kern.ipc.somaxconn=8192 kern.ipc.max

Re: strange network performace

2001-10-08 Thread Danny Braniss
> And what happens when you go from A or B to C? Have you been running a top or systat >-vmstat while this is happening? > I'm thinking it might be a purely IO thing, on the proc box. I have seen similar >slowness with the default FreeBSD > install on single proc boxes, but a few sysctl's seem

Re: strange network performace

2001-10-08 Thread Eric Anderson
And what happens when you go from A or B to C? Have you been running a top or systat -vmstat while this is happening? I'm thinking it might be a purely IO thing, on the proc box. I have seen similar slowness with the default FreeBSD install on single proc boxes, but a few sysctl's seem to do t

Re: strange network performace

2001-10-08 Thread Danny Braniss
> How many times did you run the test? Could it have been cached in host B, but not >C? What about disk performance? > Maybe one is ATA66 or 100, and tthe other is not? Host C may only be UDMA33, and >possibly have a slow drive, with a > lower amount of memory for caching. Did you rebuild k

Re: strange network performace

2001-10-08 Thread Eric Anderson
How many times did you run the test? Could it have been cached in host B, but not C? What about disk performance? Maybe one is ATA66 or 100, and tthe other is not? Host C may only be UDMA33, and possibly have a slow drive, with a lower amount of memory for caching. Did you rebuild kernels o