Slow file transfer
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Nov 7 21:22:20 GMT 2005
Olivier Nicole <on at cs.ait.ac.th> writes:
> I am suffering from slow file transfer on a FreeBSD machine.
>
> The set-up is as follow:
>
> Router1 is connected to Router2 that is connected to sFTP server
>
> Router1 and Router2 are the same motherboard, same BIOS configuration,
> same CPU, both have same type hard disk (Seagate ATA 10 and 20 GB) and
> both are running the same version of freeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 with the
> same softwares (Zebra and xorp basically).
>
> Router2 has 128MB ram while Router1 has only 64MB.
>
> Both machine load are close to 0.00
>
> When I do a file transfer from Router1 to sFTP server (through
> Router2) I get a transfer rate of 511 KB/s.
>
> When I do a file transfer from Router2 to sFTP server (one less hop) I
> can only get 87 KB/s.
>
> The transfer rates remains the same all along the day (this is not due
> at a specific traffic high load at the time I gathered data).
>
> While the setup has not changed for months, the slowness is very recent.
>
> I must admitthat I am clueless about what could be the reason and help
> would be greatly appreciated.
Could be a duplex mismatch. Look for collision statistics.
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