Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?
Will Froning
wfroning at angui.sh
Thu Sep 11 11:15:48 PDT 2003
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:36:52 +0200
Alexander Marx <mad-ml at madness.at> wrote:
> John Straiton wrote:
> >>Look at network errors (netstat -i), duplex mismatches (link
> >>lights on switch vs. what ifconfig tells you), and network
> >>load (i.e. production is on a 10Mb hub, development is on a
> >>100Mb switch). Etc., etc., etc.
> >
> >
> > They are all connected to the same switch, and the Cisco IOS reports
> > zero errors on any of the 3 interfaces. Even when the production
> > machine was live, it would have less than 3Mb/sec load on a
> > 100Mbit/FullDuplex network.
> >
> thats great and all .. but does the server also report zero
> interface errors? (output of netstat -in) ?
>
> we had lots of problems with cisco switches and half/full-duplex
> missmatches ... even though the switches thought everything was fine.
I'll agree w/ the above statement. We force full-duplex on both the
switch and via rc.conf for all of our FreeBSD boxes.
Will
--
Will Froning
Unix Sys. Admin., Lt. Pimp
wfroning at angui.sh
More information about the freebsd-performance
mailing list