Subject: Re: kern/34109: vr(4) is painfully slow with the new rlphy(4)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/31/2006 06:20:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/34109; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: kern/34109: vr(4) is painfully slow with the new rlphy(4)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:17:49 +0100
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:15:01AM +0000, jmmv@netbsd.org wrote:
> >Number: 34109
> >Category: kern
> >Synopsis: vr(4) is painfully slow with the new rlphy(4)
>
> This produces extremely slow throughput. For example, a scp of a
> file between a 3.0_STABLE host in my home network and this current
> machine delivers a maximum transfer rate of 150 KB/s; this "speed"
> is not sustained as it fluctuates between 70 KB/s and 120 KB/s.
> As you can imagine, the local network is unusable at those rates.
>
> If I disable rlphy(4) from userconf, the kernel falls back to
> ukphy(4) as it always did before rlphy(4) was added:
At a guess full/half duplex is being incorrectly detected.
David
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