since it's so much faster with FreeBSD than with Linux I doubt it's the alix board limiting your throughput. this is what I just tested with Voyage: wget a 1GB file from a file server dumping it to /dev/null takes 90s.
root@voyage:~# uname -a Linux voyage 3.2.17-voyage #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 14 01:36:16 HKT 2012 i586 GNU/Linux root@voyage:~# wget --output-document /dev/null http://192.168.10.243/oneGB.iso --2012-08-29 10:28:12-- http://192.168.10.243/oneGB.iso Connecting to 192.168.10.243:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1063216096 (1014M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 0% [ ] 0 --.-K/s 100%[===========================================>] 1,063,216,096 11.2M/s in 90s 2012-08-29 10:29:42 (11.2 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [1063216096/1063216096] root@voyage:~# Best regards, Michael Steinmann 2012/8/29 Marcus Scholz <comman...@commander1024.de> > Am 28.08.2012 20:45, schrieb mailsvb: > > Hi everyone, > > I have a question regarding my setup. > > First, let me describe my setup, hope I don't miss anything ;-) > - I'm using voyage linux on my Alix 2d3 board > - I tried several versions. 0.8.0, 0.8.5 and the current dev version from > yesterday > - My DSL provider is Netcologne, which offers a fibre connection into the > basement and S-DSL from the basement up to my appartment. > - Connection speed is 100MBit down, 10Mbit up > - After a basic installation, I only changed 2 files... please find them > attached. > - The "internal" interface of the Alix Board is connected to a switch > - My PC is connected to the same switch, so no slow WLAN connection or > anything > > My problem is, when checking the connection speed e.g. via > www.speedtest.net, I only get a downstream of appr. 20-21 Mbit > > It's the Alix, especiallay under Linux - the SoftIRQ just sucks. Get > faster Hardware (with Hardware IRQs) > > > I have a second Alix Board where I installed the latest beta of Monowall > (a FreeBSD based router OS) where I don't see that issue... I can switch > between both Alix Boards and whenever using the voyage linux board, I am > limited to 20-21 Mbit, I can immediately switch to the Monowall board and > have appr. 70-85 Mbit in downstream... > > FreeBSD does it better in a way... > > > I try to figure out what the issue is. Did anyone face a similar > problem? Is it related to my configuration? > > Any help is appreciated :-) > > Thanks and best regards, > Sven > > > > _______________________________________________ > Voyage-linux mailing > listVoyage-linux@list.voyage.hkhttp://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux > > > > _______________________________________________ > Voyage-linux mailing list > Voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk > http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux > >
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