Re: Network Slowdowns?

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 Oct 2006 13:23:51 GMT, Jamie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> #define XL_MIN_FRAMELEN 240
>
> I don't know what that did though?

Your xl(4) will not start TXing, if entire packet is > 240bytes and
less then 240bytes has been transfered to hardware buffer

> So far, no errors but file copies are still slow. Makes me suspect the
> underrun errors weren't related?

Mmm, it seems not related then ...

> About ~ 1 mb/sec across a 100mbs ethernet connection. Correct me if I'm
> wrong, but shouldn't this be closer to 5-10 megabytes/sec, assuming 100mbs
> is "bits pr. second" and NFS had a rather large overhead? (say, 1/2 of it
> is protocol related?)

You mean it is slow on both RXing and TXing, or just on RXing?

BTW, please post dmesg of boot -v if possible, thanks.

Best Regards,
sephe

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