ethernet bandwith problems

[Eric Anderson]

Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Sunday 27 November 2005 08:08 pm, Eric Anderson wrote:
> 
>>LeifEriccson wrote:
>>
>>>hi there
>>>
>>>i got a wrap-board from pcengines(.ch) with an amd geode cpu and
>>>two ethernet interfaces. this board is working with freebsd 6.0
>>>and the ethernet interfaces with the sis driver. actually i did
>>>some tests with the iperf tool, and i wondered why i just get a
>>>perfomance up 37 MBit/s. maybe somebody of you got a clue.
>>
>>37MBit/s isn't too bad for a geode I don't think..
>>
>>Eric
> 
> 
> 37 Megabytes per second is reasonable.  At that point you are 
> disk-bound
> 
> 37 megabits per second means that there is something wrong.


37Megabytes per second is over 100mbit speeds.

37Megabits per second is roughly 4Megabytes per second, about 40% of 
100megabit speeds. Seems a little low, but 37Megabytes per second isn't 
quite possible over 100megabit.

Eric



-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't.
------------------------------------------------------------------------