Re: Network Slowdowns?

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 06 Oct 2006 12:56:08 GMT, Jamie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Curious if anyone else has experienced this:
>
> Network gets really slow, I've got a 100m local network connection:
>
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>                 [ snip ]
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>
> But, when I copy files via NFS especially, but also sftp.. I get around
> 1-2 mbyte/sec. This is slower than the airport on a mac, claiming to be
> about 1/10 the speed.
>
> If I reboot the machine, or issue this command:
>
> ifconfig xl0 down ; ifconfig xl0 up
>
> Performance returns to about normal (although I still experience lockups
> with NFS from time to time.. been scratching my head about that for a
> while, can't seem to find the problem)
>
> Is there a problem with some network drivers?
>
> What gets freed up/reset with 'ifconfig down' that might explain why it seems
> to temporarily fix the problem?

Please post the dmesg of boot -v
Thanks.

Best Regards,
sephe

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