realtek RTL8168C/8111C performance issues
Hi
I've been using Debian for approx 5 years. I'm in the process of
building me a new NAS machine.
To that end i have bought a small NAS chassis and a DG945GCLF2 wich has
a atom 330 and realtek RTL8168C/8111 NIC. I have everything hooked up to
a Dink DGS-1008D gigbit switch
I installed lenny and tested hdperfomance on my software raid0 and got
approx 120mb/s write with DD
Then i went to test the network and realised i got really crappy
performance for being Gigabit. I used iperf and got 116 mbit/s.When i do
iperf between my stationary machines i get 914mbit/s and a transfer
speed in the range of 70-80 MB/s.when i do ftp and such.
I saw that i had a lot of dropped packages but I got that solved by
installing the latest drivers from realtek based from the instructions
here http://www.jamesonwilliams.com/hardy-r8168.html
But still the network performance still was as bad as before. So i tried
a lot of different things
* I exchanged all the patch cables with new ones
-- No change
* Removed all the other devices from the router except the NAS and the
main machines
-- First i got no change, then all of a sudden for some time i
got 914 Mb/s
* I connected the NAS directly to my main stationary machine
-- Again i mostly really crappy and then again i got full speed
for a 10 min or so
The biggest problem is that i havn't been able to find a setup that
result in consistently good performance.
I thinking of trying a separate NIC but then i have to loose the case as
it dosn't fit so if i could find a solution that works with the onboard
NIC i would be very glad.
Any help or suggestions would be highly appriciated as i have scanned
the net for days without finding any good leads.
Thanks
/Mikael
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