> > To throw more confusion onto the whole setup, when I used intel 100M cards > > over a switch, I could easily get upto 4MB/sec data transfer for large > > files. > i believe these are rather slow rates compared to the theoretical > limits.. ever tried making a /dev/shm partition mounted, and try to > transfer from there, or probably from /dev/zero and try that? probably > you'd get to know as to whether the card is at fault or the hdd speed. I didn't really care. These were the speeds that i was getting with ftp, and the intel cards were faster than the realtek chipset ones. I don't like copying /dev/zero across the lan to test speed.. it is pointless ;)
> > The same machines with Compex cards using some wdxxx chipset would > > give 300k under linux, but around 2MB under windows (The linux driver was > > surely faulty). > surely. i am using lin-2.4.18-14 (rh8) and i just got average 1004MB/s > for 30 MB file over a p-120 -> athlon 800. (card= rtl 8029AS) 10mbps cards are in general quite fast, as they don't require a lot of system resources and hard disks are fast enough. > > A RealTek rtl8139(or 29??) based cheapo card would max out > > at 2MB/sec on win-win, win-lin & lin-lin. All these speeds were measured > > using ftp file transfers for large files and idle systems. The 4mb/sec speed > > of the intel cards seemed to be because of the disk throughput. I wonder if > > the intel cards use significantly less cpu to cause such good speeds. > quite possible. i have no idea on this one, and frankly cant test, since > i have a BNC (coaxial) setup and cant go beyond 10Mbps.. (home network). > but generally do feel proud to note that i get about 700-800 kBps on > win-lin or lin-win .. and a 1000+mBps on lin-lin... but the worst for a > win-win setup.. have you tried using cross cables for your home network. Also note that 8 port 100mbps switch costs in the rs. 1700 range nowadays! > > I am right now thinking about getting 4 80gb 5400 rpm drives and then > > setting up my celeron 366 on raid 5, raid 1 and raid 0 to see the > > performence i can get out of normal dlink 100mbps cards. That way i will be > > able to measure the effect of lan throughput, cpu speed and linux + samba + > > win2k ;) > all the best, and please post a few results if possible. helps much > better to know whether my darling *cheapo* cards actually max out as bad > as you say it does. I didn't get the hard disks. I bought 1 80gig baracuda ata-v hdd. I could not get 5400rpm disks at np :(( Ambar Roy _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
