FreeBSD-6.1/amd64 bge(4) driver performance problems

Vladimir Terziev vlady at gbservices.biz
Wed Nov 29 16:29:46 UTC 2006


	Hm, interesting. I noticed that the auto-negotiation between the switch and the Broadcom NIC leaded to 100mbit, half-duplex. That's why i forced the Broadcom NIC to 100mbit, full-duplex.

		Vladimir

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:23:40 +0100
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:47:32PM +0200, Vladimir Terziev wrote:
> > It seems the bge(4) driver has severe performance problems (may be
> > especially in my configuration).
> > I tried test scp(1) to a remote machine, using one of the BCM5721 NICs.
> > The average speed which has been reached was 200kBps.
> 
> Can you try forcing the interface back to 100mbit, half duplex? I've
> seen issues with a switch before resulting in exactly that kind of
> performance.
> 
> Joerg
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