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

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

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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:51:36 +0100

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    From: "Markie" <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com>
    To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
    Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:14 PM
    Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 -> 5.2.1, drop in hard disk
    ornetworkperformance?

    |
    | ----- Original Message -----
    | 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)
    |

    Ok, well, I just rebooted and put plug and play os back to disabled but
    it's the same... so I guess this must have something to do with it being a
    newer version of samba (same config as before though) or freebsd? Anyone
    else seem anything like this before?

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