Odd network issue ... *very* slow scp between two servers

[Mike Tancsa]

At 08:08 PM 06/03/2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > what does netstat -ni show on both machines for those NICs ?  Is the switch
> > managed ? If so, see if there are any errors.  Also run the tests where
> > there is little load going on.  A load of 7 is going to impact something
> > that needs cpu power (i.e. the ssh encryption)
>
>re: cpu power ... note that I'm not doing anything special as far as ssh
>is concerned for the tests ... just using pure ftp ... I thought about the
>encryption/cpu stuff for doing the tests ...
Sorry, I thought you said scp was slow.

>Also, is there a way, without a reboot, to "reset" the values from netstat
nope.  But look at /var/mail/root at the daily process. It will have a 
daily snapshot that you can compare.
neptune# netstat -ni
>Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts 
>Oerrs  Coll
>em0    1500 <Link#1>    00:07:e9:05:1b:2e 760794856 58002330 
>775900767     0     0

One or 2 input errors are fine. 58,002,330 will have the giant robot 
yelling "Danger! Danger!" Thats a rate of 7%...



         ---Mike