The 27/09/13, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > I am back from my visit at a customer where I installed a new and shiny > gentoo server for running VMs (KVM). > > Currently I don't have access as my VPN only works from my static IP at > home (my router seems to be offline right now ... and I am still away > from office for the weekend) so I can't check details now ... > > basically: > > I tried to copy/rsync some file with ~8GB over a gigabit connection ... > from old to new server. Checked ethtool for gigabit, looked ok. I always > saw the behavior that the transfer started rather fast and slowed down > within minutes. Let's say ~50 MB/s in the start and then down to maybe 2 > or so. That is way from the expected throughput with such new hardware.
You should give details of the tests. It looks like a hard disk write speed bottleneck. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
