Slow network performance

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Hi guys.

I am in the progress of copying data between two of my linux machines and its basically just not working. I am getting transfers of 2-3Mb/s over the network (using Samba).

Both machines are running Suse 9.3 and have two network cards each, one 100Mbit and one 1000Mbit. It does not matter which of the cards I use. The problem seems to be the source host, where the IO wait is usally >60 while the destination host is basically idle. And copying to the dest. host from WinXP I get transfers around 15-20MB/s when using the 1000Mbit card on the dest. host.

Copying locally between disks or to USB drive on the source host seems to be fine so it is not the disk IO that is a problem.

I know the 1000Mbit equipment I have is not exactly high end (RTL 8169) but 2-3MB/s over gigabit ethernet is a little frustrating.


Has anyone had similar issues and perhaps some tips on how to fix this ?


Maybe its time to dig up those Intel 1000/F cards I have around here somewhere and go fiber. Maybe they fixed the bug on all 1000Mbit Intel cards which reset the device every 2 seconds.


ip





/*Network copy : source machine*/
Code:
linux1:~ # vmstat 1 1000
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 0  6   2760   3484  71232  67764    0    0  6200     0 4776  2835  2 21 10 [B]67[/B]
 1  1   2760   3112  72608  67404    0    0  9548    80 5802  3141  3 28  0 [B]69[/B]
 0  5   2760   3012  72192  66976    0    0  7060    32 5878  3298  2 29  5 [B]64[/B]


/*Network copy : destination machine*/
Code:
ntop:~ # vmstat 1 1000
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 0  0      0  13636 407980 515392    0    0    43  1279 1906  1309  1  3 94  2
 0  0      0  13876 407492 515772    0    0     0  8244 7410  9200  1 21 77  1
 0  0      0  13316 407848 515948    0    0     0  8432 4741  5260  1 15 81  3
 0  0      0  13316 407364 516656    0    0     0  8244 6047  7145  0 19 80  1

/*Disk 2 Disk copy : source machine*/
Code:
linux1:/ # vmstat 1 1000 
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 0  3   2760   3224  67180  72616    0    0 42508 19820 1508  1342  5 70  0 25
 0  5   2760   3072  65544  74432    0    0 41812 21784 1313  1173  1 74  0 25
 1  1   2760   3016  65848  74308    0    0 48404 23660 1363  1217  0 82  0 18


/*Disk 2 USB drive copy : source machine*/
Code:
linux1:/ # vmstat 1 1000
 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
  4  3   2996   4048  69528  66248    0   24 43672 23040 2156  2781  3 74  0 23
  2  3   2996   3280  69036  67536    0   24 44316 22172 2128  2825  4 73  0 23
  0  5   2996   3404  68700  67248    0    0 43588 22516 2134  2825  2 76  0 22


/*WinXP to dest. host copy : destination machine */
Code:
ntop:~ # vmstat 1 1000
 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
  5  1      0  10304 433004 493108    0    0     0 93656 1711  1553  0 100  0  0
  1  0      0  13380 423572 499584    0    0     0   352 23762 28458  1 28 69  2
  1  1      0  13016 435036 485136    0    0     0 65824 10315 12515  0 68 17 15
 
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ikapod said:
copying data between two of my linux machines and its basically just not working. I am getting transfers of 2-3Mb/s over the network (using Samba).

seems a little silly ot be using samba to copy data between linux machines if you ask me. Try rsync or scp or NFS.

Cheers
Deano
 
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