Re: Why is my gigabit ethernet so slow?

[Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen%iki.fi@localhost>]

Running TTCP within NetBSD (against myself) shows the PC is fast enough for GbE 
so I assume our wm driver needs love and caring...

ttcp-t: 1073741824 bytes in 1.86 real seconds = 4414.87 Mbit/sec +++
ttcp-t: 131072 I/O calls, msec/call = 0.01, calls/sec = 70637.89
ttcp-t: 0.0user 1.4sys 0:01real 80% 0i+0d 0maxrss 0+2pf -8+9csw

while within Ubuntu 9.10 router (with faster CPU)

ttcp-t: 1073741824 bytes in 1.51 real seconds = 5430.24 Mbit/sec +++
ttcp-t: 131072 I/O calls, msec/call = 0.01, calls/sec = 86883.84
ttcp-t: 0.0user 1.4sys 0:01real 98% 0i+0d 0maxrss 0+2pf 85+2csw

Martti