RedHat & NVIDIA nForce4 chipset

Hello, All!

I have two motherboards WinFast NF4UK8AA with installed RedHat 8.0 (kernel
2.4.18) on. Both PCs are connected through integrated Ethernet NICs (up to
1Gb). Driver has taken from nvidia.com and installed properly (with default
parameters).

Now I try to test the speed via 'ftp' downloading and get very low speed
(~4-5 Mbps), though driver reports the link is at 1Gb.

I also tried to force speed setup (force_speed_duplex=9 as driver's option),
but it gives error ("value 9 not supported"), though driver's documentation
says this option takes values 0-9.

What can be the problem?

Thanks in advance.

With best regards, Roman Mashak. E-mail: mrv@tusur.ru

On Sun, 14 May 2006 01:08:48 +0900
"Roman Mashak" <mrv@tusur.ru> wrote:

> Now I try to test the speed via 'ftp' downloading and get very low
> speed (~4-5 Mbps), though driver reports the link is at 1Gb.

Is this on your LAN? If so are you sure that's megabits (mib) per second
and not megabytes/sec (MiB/sec).

> I also tried to force speed setup (force_speed_duplex=9 as driver's
> option), but it gives error ("value 9 not supported"), though driver's
> documentation says this option takes values 0-9.
>
> What can be the problem?

The FTP server might be serving requests which have caused part of it's
bandwidth/resources to be consumed to only provide you with the
4-5Mbp/sec.

Even on your LAN there are many hard disks out there which have trouble
pushing 7MiB/sec.

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