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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 performance?
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:50:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1323035402.2762.189.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111204211007.GA32098@hiwaay.net>

Le dimanche 04 décembre 2011 à 15:10 -0600, Chris Adams a écrit :
> I have a system with an on-board RealTek gigabit network interface that
> is giving me poor performance.  I'm using a simple test, running "nc -l"
> on one system and "dd if=/dev/zero | nc" on another.  I see about 280
> Mbps transmit and 511 Mbps receive.


Do you mean that if this problematic NIC is the receiver, it receives
280Mbps, and if it is the sender, speed is 511 Mbps ?

Could you check counters ?  

netstat -s
ethtool -S ethX
cat /proc/net/softnet_stat

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-04 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-04 21:10 r8169 performance? Chris Adams
2011-12-04 21:50 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-12-04 22:02   ` Chris Adams
2011-12-04 23:40 ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-05  0:46   ` Chris Adams
2011-12-05  6:44     ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-05 14:54       ` Chris Adams
2011-12-06  8:22         ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-07  4:19           ` Chris Adams

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