100Mbit network performance - again

[Garrett Cooper]

Chris wrote:

> I have diff experience, I get around 7500kB/sec max windows to windows
> using realtek, and freebsd can get the same but uses less cpu in doing
> so, I put it down to realtek just been poor and the FreeBSD and
> windows drivers not been great, I have seen both windows and FreeBSD
> handle higher transfer rates with better quality network cards, if
> performance is essential for your network then invest in good
> hardware.
>
> Chris
>
> On 27/07/05, martin hudec <corwin at aeternal.net> wrote:
>  
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:13:50AM +0400 or thereabouts, Andrew P. 
>> wrote:
>>   
>>
>>> Erm, well 60+Mbytes is no wonder in a Gigabit environment (and it is
>>> too much of a wonder in a FastEthernet one), but I'm interested in
>>> getting 100Mbit hardware to work at full speed.
>>>     
>>
>> If I take that your "NE2000 $10 NIC's" is what you call 100Mbit
>> hardware, then.. would you mind if I ask: what do you expect more from
>> such $10-harware other than just to flicker and to eat electric current?
>>
>> Use *real* 100Mbit hardware please :) . BTW I have same performance
>> with my sis900/rl8139 NIC's.
>>
>>       cheers,
>>       Martin
>>
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>
Haha...

Samba's a given. It's always slow as hell.
HTTP... hmmm. What server are you serving HTTP traffic with and what are 
the stats of the server hardware/load and also which client are you 
using to connect to the server?

But the real question is what sort of CPU speed/RAM/HD speeds and what 
version(s) of each OS are using in your machines? Performance can vary 
greatly with these factors.

If you don't like Samba, try SFU's NFS thanks to MS 
<http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/downloads/default.mspx>. 
One of the only decent things that MS has come out with ever. When 
communicating with 2 machines (Windows client, FreeBSD/Linux server) I 
had very little lag and things got close to the full 10Mb/s I think 
(didn't empirically measure the value). You can also use Cygwin based 
NFS if you only want a client and not a server.
-Garrett