Howdy, all. I've got something that might be worth of April Fool's if it weren't for the facts that a) it's been happening for a while, and b) it's really annoying.
Specifically, my NICs, in at least two of my machines, are going at roughly 1/10th the speed they're spec'd for. I fully understand that a 100Mbit NIC will never actually see 100 Mbit -- more like 80. And for a Gbit NIC, 600 Mbit would be closer. But right now, for example, my Gigabit NIC is pushing data at 5.6MB/s -- or roughly 45 Mbit/s. I just switched from the 100 Mbit EEPro100 'cause it was going at 8 Mbit/s. According to dmesg, they're recognized as they should be, and the switch shows them as having autodetected at the appropriate rate as well. (Note, also, that everything's running at full duplex.) One last data point: it seems to go reasonably fast -- at least three times faster than it does later -- during the first couple hundred megabytes. I'm assuming that that's cached stuff. However, the hard drives (I've checked the specs) should all be able to come close to, or even exceed, gigabit transfer rates, and the machines aren't busy doing anything else, so I don't think that drive access should be the bottleneck. Oh: 2.4.20, Debian. Any hints/suggestions/etc., would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Ken _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss