From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 16 13:28:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297FE37B401 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:28:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C2043F85 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:28:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1GLSnrX004234; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:28:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E500291.3060706@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:28:49 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: faisal gillani Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT tunning network References: <20030216190043.58284.qmail@web11001.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG faisal gillani wrote: > Well sorry for this Ot Question > > i have a 100mbps network > utp cable 10/100 mbps switch hub Switch or hub? > 60 clients consisting of Linux , Windows & solaris O/S > Dns is used for name resolution > there is a local webserver "Apache" running on my > network which provides large media files to clients as > downloads... > the problem that when clients downloads the download > speed they get is ranging from 400kbps to 1.5 mbps .. > both in rush hour & off hours . > so i wanted to know is that normal ? if not then wat > can be the problem & how can i fix it ? Well ... normal is a relative term ... What does 'ifconfig' tell you? Is your network card actually negiotiating 100 or 10? Make sure it's negiotiating properly, or your network performance will suffer. Also, you're saying "large media files". It's very likely that the bottleneck is not your network, but your disk drive on the server. You can use systat to monitor the drive usage during activity, and if it's high, it's probably the limiting factor. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message