I recently did a short file transfer over gigabit ethernet in both x86 and amd64. On x86 it appears the limiting factor is the laptop I'm transferring to. I get about 20MB/sec to the laptop in x86. But on amd64, I'm not sure what the limiting factor is, because I max out at about 2.8MB/sec with the EXACT same hardware. Here are the dmesg lines for that ethernet card: skc0: <3Com 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xb400-0xb4ff mem 0xfdc00000-0xfdc03fff irq 17 at device 10.0 on pci0 skc0: 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940) sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0 skc0: [GIANT-LOCKED] I'm positive that in both x86 and in amd64, the card is set up the same way, with a 1500 byte MTU, and running at 1000baseTX full-duplex: sk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.16 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet6 fe80::20c:6eff:feba:a749%sk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:0c:6e:ba:a7:49 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex,flag0,flag1>) status: active So I'm at a loss as to why it's so much faster in x86 than it is in amd64. Any ideas? KenReceived on Thu Mar 25 2004 - 17:53:23 UTC
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