From: "Geo" 

Try it with a bigger file, 200 meg can fit in disk cache.

Geo.

"Scott"  wrote in message
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> Just as an onlooker:
>
> I have a new mailserver with a 500 PIII Xeon and a gig Hawkings adapter
> plugged into a Netgear 752 stackable with a couple of gig ports. The
> other gig port goes to my dell poweredge 1500.
>
> Using a small file (dripping sarcasm) like Server 2003 SP1 (200+megs) I
> get a sustained throughput in the 120mb/second; 12% saturation. I'm
> guessing i'm coming up on the Xeon's ability to make the push as it's
> almost pegged on taskmanager (about 98%)
>
> Scott
>
>
> Mike '/m' wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 May 2005 12:19:08 -0400, "Frank Haber"

> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I'm amazed, too (at 12-13MBps).  Can you run a perf meter on both ends,
next
> >>time you transfer a file?  I'd be interested in how long the CPU pins
(g).
> >>(Not that we can differentiate a PCI bus throttle from a CPU clot from a
> >>bridge running out of interrupt time.)
> >
> >
> > CPU is running around 20% on both systems.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Is there a handle in NT that an app can get at to toggle the driver
between
> >>standard and jumbo packets?  Any downside to leaving jumbo enabled all
the
> >>time?
> >
> >
> > Under W2K, the knob is in the network connections applet, it is one of
> > the NIC driver options.
> >
> > So far as I know, a subnet has to be all jumbo, or all regular frames.
> >
> >   /m
> >
> >
> >

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