This one time, at band camp, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:16:48AM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> >> Another data point though; this backup today started at 1:30am (it's now >> 10:15am) and is only 35% through -- about 20GiB. This is pretty abnormal >> (well, compared back to when it used to run -- it would on a bad day be >> finishing about now). >> > >Do you have network analysis capability? One of the early things >network-knowledgable people seem to ask is if there is a duplex >(half/full) mismatch between the switch and the system. Possibly >some auto-negotiation did not get it right. IIRC, it causes a lot >of collisions and resends.
Yeah, I do. Thanks for the pointer.
