On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Manish Chakravarty <manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I am running build 94 inside VMware on my mac. I dont notice a speed > difference. > Maybe it's a problem with only bare metal installs then (though I find > this problem weird. Solaris/OpenSolaris has one of the best networking > stacks. Network performance should be atleast on par with Windows if > not better )
It is after all software and it is software's fundamental right to have bugs. I'd suspect a driver bug. Regards, Moinak. > > Thanks > Manish > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Shishir Pandey <durvasa86 at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Harsha, >> I've pretty much the same problem, I'm running build 91 though. I have >> another interesting >> observation ie when I boot in xVM the download speeds are good. >> >> Angad, >> I'm not entirely sure about how Harsha calculated his download speeds but >> I've measured speed on-line via speedtest.net, and done a simple traceroute >> and using ping and ntop, all fairly simple in essence but do tell me >> sufficient information. >> for example >> in xVM >> tracroute to www.google.com ----> normally takes under 30ms for me >> ping to www.google.com --> nearly the same number (with no packet loss) >> ntop tells me that speeds' 1.6 mbps (I've a 2 mbps connection) >> in regular kernel (not running in xVM) >> traceroute to www.google.com ---> 1027 ms (This is virtually the >> case at each hop) >> ping to www.google.com ---> 1186ms (with 20% packet loss) >> ntop tells me that speed is 102 kbps ( just to re-iterate I've a >> 2mbps connection) >> >> And the load avg on my machine in both the cases was around 0.3*. >> >> An equally interesting fact is that on Linux (dual boot) the connection >> works like a charm. >> >> I have so far compared the kstats outputs after running the system in >> two modes, after nearly >> same time and (almost) same amount of data transfers, and found nothing >> which was drastically >> different. No changes from netstat, the same modules are loaded etc etc. >> >> I posted the query to laptop-discus/osol-help after posting it to Hyd >> user group and B'lore user >> groups. I'll try the stuff on perf cd, but I'm really lost here. >> >> Regards, >> Shishir >> >> >> Angad Singh wrote: >>> How are you measuring the speed? Performance Monitor? >>> >>> There is a useful tool called "netsum" which shows you exacty up/down >>> speed per interface in KB/s as well as packets/s. It can be found in >>> the Solaris Performance Tools CD: >>> http://blogs.sun.com/partnertech/entry/solaris_performance_primer_understanding_the >>> http://blogs.sun.com/partnertech/entry/solaris_performance_toolscd_3_0 >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Harsha <Harsha.Sabarad at sun.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi , >>>> Can any help me to increase my down load speed as its 113kb/s in >>>> windows and just 13to max 15kb/s in solaris (nevada svx_93 build ) or if >>>> its a bug please lemme know so that i can log the same . >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Harsha >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> ug-bosug mailing list >>>> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >>>> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >>>> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ug-bosug mailing list >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >> > > > > -- > Manish Chakravarty > http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
