Re: Poor Ariadne Performance on 10/100 Hub - probable solution

[Bernd Sieker <bsieker%freenet.de@localhost>]

On 01.04.01, 19:03:06, Oliver Gerler wrote:
> Hiya!

[...]
> 
> I then added -b8 to the ftp line in inetd.conf for 8x512 bytes as max packet
> size and my transfer speed if downloading from my Amiga to Linux via ftp
> jumped from mere 60-70KBps to 260-270 KBps.

Thanks for the tips, but nfs is not the main problem, but really the
physical transfer, regardless of protocol. I get lock-ups with X11,
ssh, icmp (ping), ftp, just everything.

Incidentally, the only thing that yields acceptable performance is a
dd transfer from an nfs partition with 1024k blocksize. Everything
else gives short transfer bursts, and then a 1 or 2 second lock-up.

And Linux is generally known to be a very bad nfs server.

As for ftp, I doubt that this will change anything, since ftp
transfers betwwen any two other computers (NetBSD, Windows NT,
Windoees 98, HP-UX) work very well, and ftp transfer from an Amiga to
another machine, if connected directly or via _another_ hub, also
works fine.

Looks like I'll have to replace the hub sooner or later.

> 
> So it could be that for you also, hope it helps.
> 
> Ciao, Rockus
> -- 
> "I *love* the smell of crashed code in the morning!"
>   - a bug in "Cyberworld"

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Bernd Sieker

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