Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 -> 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or networkperformance?

From: Markie (mark.cullen_at_dsl.pipex.com)
Date: 04/23/04

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    From: "Markie" <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com>
    To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
    Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:53 PM
    Subject: Home server upgrade 4.9 -> 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or
    networkperformance?

    | Hello everyone!
    |
    | I just upgraded my home server frmo 4.9-R-p3 to 5.2.1-R after having a
    few
    | problems with modems and random hard lockups(?).
    |
    | Well, first off the upgrade didn't solve this and I can still reliably
    make
    | the box freeze with a new modem I bought which I hoped would cure the
    | problem... when infact it's 10x worse with that modem :o) Has anyone got
    | any ideas as to what could be causing this? The network card for the
    | internal side is an fxp card and the network card the modem is attached
    to
    | is an older 10megabit vx card (3com Etherlink III).
    |
    | I can't really think of any other information to provide right now but I
    | really would be grateful for some prompting of more info and a bit of
    help!
    | My last few emails to questions about the hard lock ups didn't get any
    | replies if I remember rightly :o)
    |
    | Aside from that, I just copied a 400 meg file over samba and it really
    did
    | seem incredibly slow compared to when it was running 4.9. It took
    agessssss
    | to untar the backup 1.5gig file too! Is there anything I am supposed to
    | tweak here?
    | I am thinking about just reinstalling 4.9 again but I would like to avoid
    | that if I can, as it would be alot of time wasted :o) I don't have any
    | numbers for this unfortuantly either, it just feels and seems a hell of
    | alot slower! For instance, when I was copying this file and tried to ssh
    in
    | from my windows machine it just sat there for ages doing (apparently)
    | nothing!
    |
    | Thanks!
    |

    Well I was just using bmon from ports to monitor the speed and copying a
    file to the box over samba is dramatically slower than copying from it:

    Copying a 1.5gig backup tar from the freebsd machine to my box is around
    6-7 meg a second
    Copying a 600 odd meg file to the freebsd machine from my box is around
    only 1-2 meg a second!

    I do seem to remember having this kind of problem ages ago when I used
    Linux. Before installing 5.2.1 I did enable plug and play in BIOS (it hung
    with that turned on using 4.9, not with 5.2.1 though) so I will try
    disabling that either later or tomorrow morning to see if that fixes my
    issue! Could it be that which is causing it?

    Other than that I don't think I have had any major issues with the install
    yet :o) Well... except for it didn't solve my hard lockup problem like I
    hoped it would have. Seems like it isn't a hard disk performance drop
    though :o)

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