vr speed issues

[Nenhum _de_Nos]

On 12/4/06, Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jorn Argelo wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Can you snip the relevant section of "pciconf -vl" to see the chip
> version?  It seems like this only happens with some of the Via Rhine II
> chips.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>
> > [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

just to give more info, i have a EPoX old KT600 Motherboard and had
difficult times running linux here. some 2.6.x kernel's driver had my
NIC resseting when in quite stress ... when then the card would stop
working for some time. when i installed FreeBSD in it (think 6.1 till
now, could bo 6.0R also) it stopped. i cant say it is the best NIC
ever, but it is usable and no longer hangs when someone does a big
samba copy throught it.

vr0 at pci0:18:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x300c1695 chip=0x30651106 rev=0x78 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
    device   = 'VT6102 Rhine II PCI Fast Ethernet Controller'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet

also had this one (standalone pci card):
vr0 at pci0:8:0:   class=0x020000 card=0x01051106 chip=0x31061106 rev=0x86 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
    device   = 'VT6105M/LOM Rhine III PCI Fast Ethernet Controller'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet

and the same thing happened

matheus

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