| -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Markie | Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:15 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 -> 5.2.1, drop in hard disk | ornetworkperformance? | | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Markie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:53 PM | Subject: Home server upgrade 4.9 -> 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or | networkperformance? | | | | Hello everyone! | | | | I just upgraded my home server frmo 4.9-R-p3 to 5.2.1-R after | having a | few | | problems with modems and random hard lockups(?). | | | | Well, first off the upgrade didn't solve this and I can still | reliably | make | | the box freeze with a new modem I bought which I hoped would cure | the | | problem... when infact it's 10x worse with that modem :o) Has | anyone got | | any ideas as to what could be causing this? The network card for | the | | internal side is an fxp card and the network card the modem is | attached | to | | is an older 10megabit vx card (3com Etherlink III). | | | | I can't really think of any other information to provide right now | but I | | really would be grateful for some prompting of more info and a bit | of | help! | | My last few emails to questions about the hard lock ups didn't get | any | | replies if I remember rightly :o) | | | | Aside from that, I just copied a 400 meg file over samba and it | really | did | | seem incredibly slow compared to when it was running 4.9. It took | agessssss | | to untar the backup 1.5gig file too! Is there anything I am | supposed to | | tweak here? | | I am thinking about just reinstalling 4.9 again but I would like | to avoid | | that if I can, as it would be alot of time wasted :o) I don't have | any | | numbers for this unfortuantly either, it just feels and seems a | hell of | | alot slower! For instance, when I was copying this file and tried | to ssh | in | | from my windows machine it just sat there for ages doing | (apparently) | | nothing! | | | | Thanks! | | | | Well I was just using bmon from ports to monitor the speed and | copying a | file to the box over samba is dramatically slower than copying from | it: | | Copying a 1.5gig backup tar from the freebsd machine to my box is | around | 6-7 meg a second | Copying a 600 odd meg file to the freebsd machine from my box is | around | only 1-2 meg a second! | | I do seem to remember having this kind of problem ages ago when I | used | Linux. Before installing 5.2.1 I did enable plug and play in BIOS | (it hung | with that turned on using 4.9, not with 5.2.1 though) so I will try | disabling that either later or tomorrow morning to see if that fixes | my | issue! Could it be that which is causing it? | | Other than that I don't think I have had any major issues with the | install | yet :o) Well... except for it didn't solve my hard lockup problem | like I | hoped it would have. Seems like it isn't a hard disk performance | drop | though :o) |
----- Original Message ----- From: "JJB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Markie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 1:33 PM Subject: RE: Home server upgrade 4.9 -> 5.2.1, drop in hard disk ornetworkperformance? | Release 5.x uses an new file system which many people have reported | noticeable performance problems and hard disk sector lock outs. Keep | in mind that all the 5.x version are full of new experimental code. | If performance and reliability is requirement you need on your | servers then only use the stable versions of FreeBSD. 4.9 is the | current production stable version, 4.10 beta is available now and in | 2 weeks 4.10 is scheduled to be released becoming the official | current production stable version. Yeah I realise that. I just find it a bit strange that it pulls off the machine normal speeds but sending something over to it is really slow. I don't remember it being so slow on 4.9! And the untar was slow from one drive to the other... on seperate channels too (and that was before I turned off write caching :o) I am now playing about trying to figure out why the box keeps locking up on me with my new modem :o( I compiled a kernel with invarients and witness and stuff in but... it just locks up totally! I would appreciate it if anyone could help me out or suggest anything at all! At the moment I am thinking perhaps the card is just bad or something. An old PCI 3COM Etherlink III 590 or something along those lines. I am about to try it on my other 5.x box with just one intel card to see if it'll lock that up too. Expect more moaning from me :o) Thanks for your reply!! _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
