vr speed issues

2006-11-28 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I spent some time trying to track down slow tcp performance on a small office switched 100 LAN. We just put in a number of whitebox PCs running FreeBSD 6.1-p2/PC-BSD 1.2 that all have onboard Via Rhine 10/100 ethernet controllers. Performace with scp was around 200KB/s, ftp wavered b

vr speed issues

2006-12-05 Thread Nenhum _de_Nos
On 12/4/06, Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 rou

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-29 Thread Philipp Ost
Charles Sprickman wrote: [snipped] Performace with scp was around 200KB/s, ftp wavered between 300-500KB/s. This did not appear to be a duplex mismatch - unmanaged switch showed them all at 100/Full, put some other hosts on the same ports/cabling and got near wire speed. I just checked wit

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Philipp Ost wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: [snipped] Performace with scp was around 200KB/s, ftp wavered between 300-500KB/s. This did not appear to be a duplex mismatch - unmanaged switch showed them all at 100/Full, put some other hosts on the same ports/cabling and got

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-29 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:50:17PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Hi all, > > I spent some time trying to track down slow tcp performance on a small > office switched 100 LAN. We just put in a number of whitebox PCs running > FreeBSD 6.1-p2/PC-BSD 1.2 that all have onboard Via Rhine 10/

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Charles Sprickman wrote: I also did a little more digging and noticed that once I start pinging from one of these hosts using large packet sizes, I get about 50-60% packet loss (ie: ping -s 1500 other.vr0.host). If I ping something with a decent card, I get about 30-50% packet loss. There's

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-30 Thread Sten Daniel Sørsdal
Philipp Ost wrote: > Charles Sprickman wrote: > [snipped] >> Performace with scp was around 200KB/s, ftp wavered between >> 300-500KB/s. This did not appear to be a duplex mismatch - unmanaged >> switch showed them all at 100/Full, put some other hosts on the same >> ports/cabling and got near wir

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: I also did a little more digging and noticed that once I start pinging from one of these hosts using large packet sizes, I get about 50-60% packet loss (ie: ping -s 1500 other.vr0.host). If I ping something with a decent card, I get about 30-50%

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I plugged in the card today, and seem to get pretty reasonable performance (8-10MB/s for scp - see attached). sorry, forgot to add... this is on: 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Nov 28 23:55:20 NZDT 2006 with a kernel that differs a small amount from GEN

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: I also did a little more digging and noticed that once I start pinging from one of these hosts using large packet sizes, I get about 50-60% packet loss (ie: ping -s 1500 other.vr0.host). If I ping somethi

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-30 Thread David Nguyen
Hi, I'm not sure if I'm much help, I have the same chipset, VIA Rhine II on a 6.1-p10 and works fine on a production server # pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:18:0: class=0x02 card=0x1421147b chip=0x30651106 rev=0x78 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT6102 Rhine

Re: vr speed issues

2006-12-01 Thread Jamie Clark
Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi all, I spent some time trying to track down slow tcp performance on a small office switched 100 LAN. We just put in a number of whitebox PCs running FreeBSD 6.1-p2/PC-BSD 1.2 that all have onboard Via Rhine 10/100 ethernet controllers. Performace with scp was aro

Re: vr speed issues

2006-12-01 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Jamie Clark wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi all, I spent some time trying to track down slow tcp performance on a small office switched 100 LAN. We just put in a number of whitebox PCs running FreeBSD 6.1-p2/PC-BSD 1.2 that all have onboard Via Rhine 10/100 ethernet

Re: vr speed issues

2006-12-01 Thread Steven Hartland
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

Re: vr speed issues

2006-12-01 Thread Jamie Clark
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

Re: vr speed issues

2006-12-04 Thread Jorn Argelo
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 t

Re: vr speed issues

2006-12-04 Thread Charles Sprickman
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. Af