Subject: Re: Network performance
To: Netzhaut <hoppe@netzhaut.com>
From: Tom Tarka <tommy@mp3.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/31/2001 16:28:39
Going to a 10/100 NuBus card probably won't help too much if you're on a =
10 MBit router/network,
but it might be worth a try if you have a spare one lying around...

Some things I'd check:

1) try a new cable from the quadra to the router

2) use the iostat program and "top" to help determine if the quadra is =
IO-bound or CPU-bound...
it might be IO-bound if your disks are slow, you've got a lot of other =
accesses going on on=20
the same disk, or if you've got too much stuff going through the bus.  =
CPU-bound would
just be a netatalk issue...

3) Especially if you're CPU-bound, but regardless, I'd renice -20 =
<netatalk pid> to and see if the higher priority helps any...

4) use ifconfig -a to check that the mtu for your ethernet card is 1500 =
or greater

Other debugging techniques:
	a) run tcpdump on the quadra and see if there happens to be lots =
of other=20
		network traffic going on and hence maxing out the =
network interface

	b) plug into a different port on the router -- voodoo, I know, =
but...



My NetBSD box is down, otherwise I'd hook you up with some benchmarks...

	-t=