BeagleBone slow inbound net I/O

[Bernd Walter]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:34:59AM -0400, Paul Mather wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:26 PM, Brett Wynkoop <freebsd-arm at wynn.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greeting-
> > 
> > It is confirmed, the net I/O is much slower than reading from the SD
> > card.  Here is another run of tar - pipe - tar, but this time the
> > source is the sd card and the destination is still the USB zfs.
> 
> 
> The Beaglebone uses a USB NIC so any I/O to/from SD card will be competing for resources and potentially slowing things down.

No it does not.
AFAIK the Sitara SoC even has a second NIC and can do Gbit, which
is not supported byt the board.
I think some or all of the beagleboards use USB for ethernet.

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