Re: Network speed on Cobalt RaQ2's - Any updates?

["vizi0n (debian-mips)" <debian-mips@vizi0n.com>]

Thanks for your advice everyone!

I've upgraded to a 2.6 kernel, switched from ext3 to ext2, and used hdparm -d1 to enable DMA and now I'm getting 2.6mb/s via FTP. It is far from the 100mbit speed connexion but at least its a tad bit faster than 1.5mb/s :)

Frank

Vincent Vandeweijer wrote:

My Raq2 is not the fastest machine on the block either...
What protocol do you use? NFS, SMB, FTP, SFPT(SSH).... NFS (kernel) is 
probably the fastest option. Further I found that ext2 gives you also a speed 
increase above ext3 (as suspected...). Another thing you could try is using 
hdparm to tune your HD. For instance the "default" was to have dma off, 
switching it on already makes quite a difference. But when using hdparm watch 
out for system instability... 

Good luck,

Vincent

(PS you should find some more info on this subject, if i remember correctly it 
was discussed earlier)

On Friday 18 August 2006 07:08 pm, vizi0n (debian-mips) wrote:
  

Hey there everyone,

I was wondering if there has been any updates to the network speed for
the Cobalt RaQ's over the past few months? I'm still suffering 1500kb/s
upload to my server while backuping which is kinda slow :( I'm running
Debian 3.1 on it right now, and theres nothing else using the network on
it, it's basically a remote hard drive that acts as a slave dns server
as well

I'd be glad to hear someone tricked out something :)

Frank