On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:57:23PM +0100, OxY wrote: > after further testing and transferred for a couple hours i realized that > the performance is ok, not changed dramatically > (the server was slow when i measured 9mb/s..) > but the load! > when i used ftp before the load increased to ~2.0, but > now it's 4.5! changed back to the original driver and got 2.0 again.. > would you guys give me an advice what to buy? 3com or intel? > (i heard em(4) driver is not too good..) > thx! >
I think you may not get correct test result when other system activity such as disk I/Os is in progress. Just stick to check pure network performance. For ftp, you can request "/dev/zero" from ftp server and save it as "/dev/null" on client in order to avoid disk I/Os. Also check the following URL. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/testing.html -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
