[rhn-users] vsftpd performance very slow

[David A. Ranch]

It's worth noting that there are known issues with early generation
Yukon MAC and PHY chips including auto-negotiation.  Check with your NIC
vendor for details or try a different NIC (Intel, etc.)

--David


dbossung at southeast.edu wrote:
> Right on the money Daryl, thanks. Now getting over 10Mb/s. Much more fun
> moving ISOs around now :)
> 
> FWIW I always set the switch port 100FD and then force the host to same.
> For some reason when I set this host to 100 FD with ethtool, I would loose
> connectivity and when I set it back to HD I got connectivity. (Remember,
> the switch port is manually set to 100 FD)
> 
> I set the switch port to auto and set the nic to auto, I get 100FD. Go
> figure.
> 
> The switch is a Cisco Catalyst 3550 and the nic is a built in Marvel Yukon.
> 
> Uh, oh, That just jogged my memory that there were some problems with the
> Yukon driver under Fedora, maybe I am running into the same thing here.
> Will check and see.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer
> 
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> Try copying the file using another method - scp/nfs/samba - you can then
> tell whether the network is the issue, which is most likely.
> Check IPtables isn't using 'Limit' to throttle connections - unlikely
> but I have seen this before.
> 
> I'd check your duplex settings up front through.
> 
> Daryl
> 
> dbossung at southeast.edu wrote:
>> I have just installed RHES 4.3 and enabled/started vsftpd.
>>
>> Both the client and the server are on the same private subnet. 100Mb/s
>>
>> When I use FileZilla on a windows box to connect (using the quick connect
>> option) and send a file (from 22M to 560M in size) the throughput is
>> extremly slow. (<100KB/s). I see similar results using WSFTP on the same
>> windows host.
>>
>> I found a kb article about using 'noreservation' in fstab, tried that but
>> was no help.
>>
>> Any other ideas about what to look at. I don't even know how to start
> with
>> this.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Don
>>
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