Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:52:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Suresh Rajagopalan <sraja@cinenet.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS slowness on 100 LAN Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.990407144941.16794A-100000@hollywood.cinenet.net> In-Reply-To: <199904072058.PAA02127@hostigos.otherwhen.com>
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> I'd turn off the FD. Based on information in another list, when > congestion occurs the 3COM switches tend to just drop packets as a > means of flow control. The sender has to time out before a retry is > attempted. Bad design. A number of other switches do the same > thing. All in all, FD may not be quite ready for prime time yet. The slowness is seen on 100MB half-duplex also. > > Also, you didn't mention the box you were using, but there are some > documented problems with Compaq boxes and 3Com PCI cards - the > cards can only access the bus one fourth as often as it should be > able to. All in all, I'm phasing out my 3Com cards. > The client is a generic box with a ASUS-P2B-D motherboard and a PII-450. The X86 server is a dual PPro Asus motherboard running X86. Suresh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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