On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:24:12PM +0100, Jochen Keil wrote:
> To make a little conclusion:
> -Ping response time >1ms on a cross linked connection

Not here:

tron@colwyn:~/tex>ping lyssa
PING lyssa.zhadum.de (81.187.181.115): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 81.187.181.115: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.174 ms
64 bytes from 81.187.181.115: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.200 ms
64 bytes from 81.187.181.115: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.211 ms
64 bytes from 81.187.181.115: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.193 ms
^C
----lyssa.zhadum.de PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.174/0.195/0.211/0.016 ms

That's two (loaded) NetBSD boxes linked over wm(4) interfaces via
a gigabit ethernet switch.

> -Using a software raid with raidframe makes it even worse

The sender used above is using RAIDframe.

Can you repeat the tests without using cgd(4), please?

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/