Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 06:37:20 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: matthew@wolfepub.com (Matthew Hagerty) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network device slowdown? Message-ID: <199810210537.GAA09530@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981020224656.007b76b0@firebat.wolfepub.com> from "Matthew Hagerty" at Oct 20, 98 10:46:37 pm
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> The machine has been running for 123 days now and there seems to be a slow > down in the ethernet performance again. I tried a 5MB ftp transfer from > another machine on the same hub and it took over 2 minutes! That same > transfer from another machine takes about 9 seconds. I know I should ethernet cards tend to break sometimes, and you might see intermittent failures with long packets (i am assuming you have not switched hardware). Also, slow transfers are typical problems with misconfigured interrupts. a tcpdump from some other machine on the same segment would help tracking the problem. luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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