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Originally Posted by Druchii
Aren't the NF4 Lan cards known to be rather bad at times, due to their built in hardware firewall?
Anywho, which cabling are you using? Ideally for 1GBps speed you should be using Cat6 class, at a stretch, Cat5e. Cat5 just will not do.
40MB/s equates to 320Mbps. So, only a third of your potential. However, how fast can your servers drives actually write? I know manhy standard hard drives top out around 60MB/s. And with a slow processor, maybe 40ish is tops?
Are the drives regularly defragmented? And what are the specs of the "server"?
Lot's of things on this one.
You could even try setting everythings duplex mode to "1Gbps Full Duplex", or half duplex. (Ask, if you don't know how)
What OS's are you using?
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I figured it would be topping out the drives probably.
"Server" is actually an old desktop running Ubuntu 7.10 server
3800+ x2
1gb ram (2x 512mb)
74gb raptor
80gb raptor
160gb 7200rpm Ide
160gb 7200rpm Sata
200gb 7200rpm Sata
120gb 7200rpm IDE
Abit AN8 motherboard.
Basically it had a large case So I shoved all the HDD's I had left over from PC's being replaced/upgraded in it rather than have them sit around gathering dust.
I was writing to one of the 7200RPM drives...
Re: NF4 hardware firewall, AFAIK its only active if you load the Nforce drivers with active armor in (And im not even sure its in the latest ones anyway) It definatly shouldn't be active under Linux.
Dtop is running Vista x64... I was more interested to know if the speeds are in-line with what others using Gbit lan are getting.
Cables are Cat5e but then again most of them are very short runs (under 2 Metres the "server" is under the desk and the pc is next to it pretty much... apart from a couple 8 Metre cables that go around the room to the other side (although there nothing on the other end of them atm)