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From: fire-eyes <sgtphou@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] 1000Mbps NIC Getting 100Mbps speeds
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:47:57
Message-Id: 1114192082.23976.32.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] 1000Mbps NIC Getting 100Mbps speeds by Christoph Gysin
1 On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 18:52 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote:
2
3 > Don't do thorughput tests from disk to disk. Use netcat
4 > (net-analyzer/nload) and pseudo devices.
5 > For monitoring throughput, I use nload (net-analyzer/nload).
6 >
7 > server:
8 > $ nc -l -p 666 < /dev/zero
9 >
10 > client:
11 > $ nc servername 666 > /dev/null
12 >
13 > view traffic graph (on either side)
14 > $ nload -i 1024000 -o 1024000 -t 200 eth0
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16 Good advice, i'll keep that around in my book O notes.
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18 Unfortuately the server in quesiton is the only linux system here with a
19 1G NIC, the system i've been using is a windows system which gets Gbps
20 speeds anywhere else.
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22 I was in fact getting Gbps speeds last night, so I really don't know
23 what changed.
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