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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:23:35 +0100
From:      Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Too many collisions on network?
Message-ID:  <20030316152335.GA1434@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
In-Reply-To: <005d01c2ebcb$82b343b0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net>
References:  <005d01c2ebcb$82b343b0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net>

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Hi,

> I have a webserver serving a lot of requests (almost filling=20
> up 4 Mbits/s of http at peak time everyday). It's running
> Apache 1.3.27 on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE, and there are usually
> about 200-250 http processes running. Today I was looking at
> the various *stat tools to monitor it, and noticed a high
> number of network collisions ie :

Are you running your network adaptor in full-duplex mode? Perhaps the devic=
e on
the other end of the wire does only support half-duplex. Changing this incr=
eased
the throughput from 20kb/s to almost 1mb/s on our internal network here
(10baseT/UTP).

HTH,
 Simon

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