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Date:      Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:30:54 -0500
From:      "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gigabit ethernet very slow.
Message-ID:  <ef10de9a0606250930k6b655e2bkb81694905454bf58@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/25/06, Sean Bryant <bryants@gmail.com> wrote:
> /dev/zero not exactly the best way to test sending data across the
> network. Especially since you'll be reading a 8k chunks.
>
> I could be wrong, strong possibility that I am. I only got 408mb when
> doing a /dev/zero test. I've managed to saturate though. Using other
> software that I wrote.
> On 6/25/06, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What's up with my computer, it's only getting 30MB/s?
> >
> > hostB: nc -4kl port > /dev/null
> > hostA: nc host port < /dev/zero
> >

408MByte/s or 408Mbit/s and what measuring stick are you using? I'm
trying to rule in/out problems with the disks, I'm only getting
~25MB/s on a 6 disk RAID0 over the network... would it be better to
setup an memory backed disk, md(4) , to read from?



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