On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Ian Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrrooster@gmail.com">mrrooster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
How much faster do you find it? I used to get about 7M/sec or so on<br>
100Mbit, and on gig I get about 10-12 at the most. I don't think I've<br>
got anything badly wrong. Maybe I was just expecting a bigger speed<br>
boost with gig.<br>
</blockquote><div><br> </div></div>On the Mac Mini, the activity monitor app shows about 46Mbyte/sec reading from the array. This is with a file copy to the local HD. Writing to the array is close to the same speed. <br>
<br>I did find when I first upgraded to gigabit that the old fileserver (K6-2/550) couldn't handle it. The CPU would max out when I would start a transfer. I upgraded to an Athlon 64 based chip and it's been going great since then. <br>
<br>This is without jumbo frames. I find the performance acceptable. <br><br>Just for fun, I looked up a Linux util to do performance testing. Here's the result between 2 linux boxes over gigabit. Note that this connection runs through 2 switches and jumbo frames is disabled.<br>
<br>-------------------------<br>travis@mythtv:~$ iperf -c <a href="http://10.1.0.2">10.1.0.2</a><br>------------------------------------------------------------<br>Client connecting to <a href="http://10.1.0.2">10.1.0.2</a>, TCP port 5001<br>
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)<br>------------------------------------------------------------<br>[ 3] local <a href="http://10.1.0.30">10.1.0.30</a> port 39299 connected with <a href="http://10.1.0.2">10.1.0.2</a> port 5001<br>
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.08 GBytes 930 Mbits/sec<br>-------------------------<br><br>930 Mbits/sec. Sounds like the network is working OK to me. :) <br>