Hi tomtom901, I've copied a 4GB iso file from windows to the linux guest.
while doing that, I got around 40 MB/s with no drops.
Then, I've renamed the file, sync'ed the disk, restarted smb and copied back the file, the same effect with 10 MB/s.
| eth1 | Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:f6:ff:fe:92 |
| inet addr:192.168.2.20 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 | |
| inet6 addr: fe80::20c:f6ff:feff:fe92/64 Scope:Link | |
| UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 | |
| RX packets:4744504 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0 | |
| TX packets:4216994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 | |
| collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 | |
| RX bytes:4685877622 (4.3 GiB) TX bytes:4745248666 (4.4 GiB) |
The switch (GS724T/Netgear) says "Packets received with Errors" == 0 for all ports, same for "Transmit Packet Errors" and "Collision Frames", all ==0.
To the scenario question, of course, I prefer a proper NIC card, but my only pcie port is already allocated by the RAID controller. It's a HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 and the onboard NICs just are crap (110MB/s write which is ok, but 30MB/s read).
