Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:11:04 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "cole@acenet.co.za" <cole@acenet.co.za>, "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> Cc: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Ftp problems Message-ID: <20020130220905.442C64844F@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOIEOJCNAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:25:30 -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: >This subject 'Re: UDMA and 100Mbit NIC speed issues' started >out on your question but has since faded into disk speed. >Look for subjects that say something about speed of Nic card >or upload ftp performance. There has been 4 or 5 threads in >the last 2 weeks on this subject. But to summarize, >the problem seems to be with any Nic card in a FBSD system >that ends up sharing a irq with some other device has >performance degradation. Look for a shared IRQ between the AGP >Slot and the 1st PCI slot. A FBSD gateway/fireway server does not >need a AGP video card. > >I put in a cheap isa vga video card and the Nic slow down went away. >If you are testing using Winbox ftp then get ftp-pro >from www/ipswitch.com it's the fastest ftp win client on the market. the problem with using a cheap isa card is that a lot of boards don't have ISA slots any more, unless you are using an old board. something to try would be to toggle "IRQ for VGA" to no in your bios. unless you are using X, then you might not be able to do that. >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Cole >Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 7:18 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Ftp problems > >Evening, if someone does reply to this, mind bouncing a cc to my email since >im not subscribed to the list, thanx. > >On to the problem, im running FreeBSD 4.5, and the server im connecting to >with ftp is using FreeBSD 4.4. My problem is that when downloading via ftp , >every say 15-20 seconds my download speeds will drop from 4k/s to 0k/s and >then bounce right back up and continue with this behaviour. I did hear talk >of this being a 4.4 problem, but upon searching the mailing list, i could >not find anything matching this. If someone knows the respective topic or a >previous post concerning this same problem, would you mind just telling me >the list or the topic of the email. > >Thanx >Cole > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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