Re: poor ethernet performance?

[Vincent Poy]

On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:

> >     I guess I forgot about the overhead.  I've tested between two
> > FreeBSD machines using Intel Pro100+ NIC cards connected to a Cisco 2924XL
> > Switch Full Duplex and never seen anything close to the speeds.
> 
>       using netperfv2pl3 and FreeBSD 2.2.8 on 300MHz PII with fxp
> cards (all from memory), i routinely get TCP_STREAM to pushd 94Mbps.
> 
>       i use these machines for stressing every else we have at work.

        Hmmm, has anyone tried a full duplex test before?  Since it seems
like the bottleneck is really the speed of the disks..


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