Cap on network speed in CURRENT?

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:38:18PM -0700, Luke wrote:
> 
> I've got a 100Mbps LAN with ethernet cards that should be capable of using 
> it, yet the highest transfer rates I seem to be able to get out of my 
> FreeBSD box are 260KB/s receiving and 341KB/s sending with around 200KB/s 
> being more normal.
> 
> I realize that there are hundreds of factors that could be influencing 
> this, but I came across this recent article that made me wonder if this is 
> some kind of hardcoded limit:
> http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-jan-2004-feb-2004.html#Automatic-sizing-of-TCP-send-buffers
> 
> Is this article saying that my network speed is limited by a small 
> static TCP buffer size?  If so, is there some way that I can increase that 
> buffer size to improve performance?  The primary function of this machine 
> is to move large amounts of data across my network, so I'm willing to 
> experiment with increasing the buffer size if it's not too difficult.

On a LAN, buffer size has minimal effect except at very high speeds.
Without tuning, two 5.x boxes with gigabit interfaces connected to a
Cisco 6513 switch (one 5/10/04 and one 2/20/04) reached 187Mbps in
iperf.  You're problems symptoms sound like duplex mismatch or bad
hardware to me.

-- Brooks

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