slow transfer speed - help

[dietmar]

stop your network (/etc/init.d/networking stop)

# rmmod bnx2
# modprobe bnx2 disable_msi=1

restart the network (/etc/init.d/networking start)

does that work?

 

[dietmar]

or add the following line to /etc/modules and reboot:

bnx2 disable_msi=1

 

[raqdedicados]

I will move some data and then tell u how it goes, by the way the ifcfgf output is
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:9B:89E:B6
inet6 addr: fe80::221:9bff:fe89:deb6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1385 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:696 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:251874 (245.9 KiB) TX bytes:141699 (138.3 KiB)
Interrupt:16 Memory:f8000000-f8012100

 

[raqdedicados]

more info

any idea what this could mean ? the MSI option has no effect...

raq102:~# dmesg | grep -i eth
Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.6.9 (December 8, 2007)
eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem f8000000, IRQ 16, node addr 00:21:9b:89:c9:6c
eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem f4000000, IRQ 16, node addr 00:21:9b:89:c9:6e
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
audit(1228273257.547:2): dev=eth0 prom=256 old_prom=0 auid=4294967295
bnx2: eth0: using MSI
bnx2: eth0 NIC Copper Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex
vmbr0: port 1(eth0) entering learning state
vmbr0: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state
eth0: no IPv6 routers present