Hi I have a small LAN at home with 2 winXP and 1 Gentoo [genstu] machines connected through a combined ADSLrouter etc. I have a problem whereby, I seem to have very slow data transfer speeds between my Gentoo machine and my XP machines as a guide here are some figures
Transfer of a 66Mb file :- XP->gen 90 secs 700KB/s gen->XP 30 secs 2700KB/s XP->XP 7 secs ?KB/s The share on genstu is samba and I have also tried Winscp which gives a little improvement in performance but not much. The hardware is all relatively new and the NIC's were cheap and cheerful but 10/100. Some output:- lspci 0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 25) dmesg tulip0: Index #251 - Media 10baseT(forced) (#12) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block. tulip0: Index #252 - Media 10baseT-FDX (#20) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block. tulip0: Index #253 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block. tulip0: Index #254 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block. Originally I thought it would be Samba and my poor attempt at configuration but I am becoming more convinced that it may be a NIC issue or more likely the kernel and my configuration of that especially since I saw that dmesg output, the kernel was built using genkernel origianlly and has been updated once [make oldconfig] I also tried out my pure genkernel config and recieved the same performance. If anyone can suggest a solution :) or more reasonably somewhere to look it would be most grateful, as at the moment I have too many places to look for a problem with no guide ie. could it be the NIC, kernel, samba, XP, protocols or even because I just forgot to say please. Anyway thx for reading stu -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
