Re: Gigabit ethernet very slow.

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:05:26PM +1000 I heard the voice of Michael Vince, and lo! it spake thus: > > According to pftop (with modulate state rules) I am able to get > about 85megs/sec when I don't have dd running. dd does indeed eats a > fair amount of cpu (40%) on the AMD64 6-stable machine.

Re: Gigabit ethernet very slow.

2006-06-26 Thread Michael Vince
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/25/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/25/06, Sean Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /dev/zero not exactly the best way to test sending data across the > network. Especially since you'll be reading a 8k chunks. > > I could be wrong, strong possibil