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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:51:16 +0100
From:      "Olivier Dony" <odony@student.info.ucl.ac.be>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Too many collisions on network?
Message-ID:  <005d01c2ebcb$82b343b0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net>

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Hello,

I have a webserver serving a lot of requests (almost filling 
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 :

root@charon:/root# netstat 5
            input        (Total)           output
   packets  errs      bytes    packets  errs      bytes colls
      1598     0     190789       2035     0    2326238   659
      1722     0     220532       2298     0    2958770   981
      2547     0     347703       3078     0    2701052  1211
      1937     0     274644       2461     0    3332772  1117
      1619     0     235935       2169     0    2795248   725
      1739     0     262005       2257     0    2076768   885
      1461     0     255291       1781     0    2120986   537
      1685     0     273239       1941     0    2144180   699
and so on...
Earlier today there has been a time where the webserver was
unreachable, with 1 out of 200 packets reaching it only, then 
everything went back to normal. Nothing unusual in the logs.
Is there a way for me to see if the problem was the webserver 
itself or the network? And is this amount of collisions 
suspicious, given that the ISP is of course running a switched
network? 

Thanks in advance for any ideas :-)

Olivier

PS: Lately I have been unable to post anything on the freebsd 
mailing-lists from my blacktrap.net e-mail address, the mails are
accepted by the MX but seem to be discarded. I mailed 
postmaster@freebsd.org but did not receive any answer, maybe the
mail was discarded too. What can I do about this?

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