vr speed issues

[Jorn Argelo]

Jamie Clark wrote:
> Steven Hartland wrote:
>> Charles Sprickman wrote:
>>>> Backing up the 4.10 box was within an acceptable margin of wire
>>>> speed (~8MB/s on 100M ethernet) given that a router was in the
>>>> middle. That's roughly how the box has always performed.
>>>>
>>>> After installing 6.1_RELEASE and updating to RELENG_6 I started the
>>>> restore. Maxed out at about 380kB/s. Now I tested the backup speed
>>>> again and it has also dropepd to 380k.
>>
>> That speed is indicative of a FD / HD mismatch between the switch
>> and the NIC if its hard coded try setting auto if its auto try
>> hardcoding. N.B. Ensure both ends are set in the same way i.e. hard/auto
>> or problems start.
> Both are auto and show 100 FD. The switch port stats show zeros on all 
> the
> error counters.
>
> Good thinking though. I wouldn't yet rule out an external influence as I
> have not performed any in-depth diagnosis of this - but I can't think of
> anything obvious aside from the OS upgrade.
>
> -Jamie
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Well my two embedded vr NICs work just fine. I get 8 - 9 MByte / second 
with FTP, using vsftpd, and 3-4 Mbyte / sec with SCP. Though this could 
also be current CPU issues, as the box is quite busy and the Via C3 
isn't all that fast. I am running 6.2-PRERELEASE. Also, did you try 
device polling? Maybe that helps, although I currently don't have it in 
my kernel configuration.

Here's an ifconfig output, let me know if you need anything else.

[user at host] ~> ifconfig

vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
        ether 00:40:63:df:e5:ee
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
vr1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        ether 00:40:63:df:e5:4e
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active

Cheers,

Jorn