Re: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...

2003-03-13 Thread jim
One thing that might be happening is a bottleneck at the PCI bus. I read somewhere that if you use 2 100BaseT cards on each end, with each connected to a switch so there were no packet collisions on the wire, you could get better throughput by channel bonding. I haven't tried it though. Jim

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...

2003-03-12 Thread Brett Campbell
My personal experience is that on two IBM 305 gigabit Px2GHz servers using something like dd if=/dev/zero | nc slave 1234 on master and nc -l -p 1234 | dd of=/dev/null on slave so no hard disk bottleneck We had not more than 60Mb/sec with a 100% CPU utilization (35Mb sec on

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...

2003-03-09 Thread A.G.
Pär Wedin wrote: Hi all! I recently upgraded my LAN to gigabit, but so far it's been a disappointment. It really isn't much faster than it used to be... If I fetch a large file from my proftpd server I get about 11 MB/s, and the same file from apache about 15 MB/s. I was hoping for at least

[gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Pär Wedin
Hi all! I recently upgraded my LAN to gigabit, but so far it's been a disappointment. It really isn't much faster than it used to be... If I fetch a large file from my proftpd server I get about 11 MB/s, and the same file from apache about 15 MB/s. I was hoping for at least twice that. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 16:41, Pär Wedin wrote: Hi all! I recently upgraded my LAN to gigabit, but so far it's been a disappointment. It really isn't much faster than it used to be... If I fetch a large file from my proftpd server I get about 11 MB/s, and the same file from apache about

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 17:11, Arturo di Gioia wrote: I think a program like TTCP could help you testing your true bandwidth http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/pcattcp.htm ARGH! I just realized that I pointed you to a Windows version! Shame on me. By the way, Google should be your friend

RE: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...

2003-03-08 Thread Kevin J. Anderson
read the latest article on tomshardware.com on the subject. kev --Original Message- -From: Pär Wedin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 10:41 AM -To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Subject: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit... - - -Hi all! - -I recently upgraded my LAN to gigabit