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Old 07-17-2009, 10:25 PM   #1
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Slow transfer speeds


I've been experiencing slow transfer speeds on my server for quite some time now and I have no clue what is causing it (or how to further debug the problem). Transfer speeds both download and upload are both very slow at around ~50kb/s.

I've ran some wget tests, and found that transfer speeds to other servers within the datacenter are normal. The slow speeds only occur from transfers going in and out of the DC. I've tried disabling firewalls, tweaking the TCP window sizes and the slow speeds still occur.

So, any thing I can do to help further debug this issue to find out whether it is a network issue, something on my box etc?

Any input greatly appreciated
 
Old 07-18-2009, 03:15 AM   #2
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may be you reach your limit as a result of traffic grow
 
Old 07-18-2009, 03:24 AM   #3
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may be you reach your limit as a result of traffic grow
Well, I've contacted my DC and according to them there isn't a network problem on their side so it is either a config issue on my box or there is actual something wrong with the network.
 
Old 07-18-2009, 03:29 AM   #4
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post here your sysctl.conf
 
Old 07-18-2009, 03:34 AM   #5
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post here your sysctl.conf
Server has an Intel C2D with 2GB RAM

Code:
# Kernel sysctl configuration file for Red Hat Linux
#
# For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled.  See sysctl(8) and
# sysctl.conf(5) for more details.

# Controls IP packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 16777216
net.core.wmem_default = 2097152
net.core.wmem_max = 16777216
net.core.rmem_max = 16777216
net.core.rmem_default = 2097152
net.core.wmem_default = 2097152
net.ipv4.tcp_mem= 8388608 8388608 8388608

# Controls source route verification
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
# Do not accept source routing
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 15
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 1800
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 2048
# Controls the System Request debugging functionality of the kernel
kernel.sysrq = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans = 131072
# Controls whether core dumps will append the PID to the core filename
# Useful for debugging multi-threaded applications
kernel.core_uses_pid = 1

# Controls the use of TCP syncookies
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1

# Controls the maximum size of a message, in bytes
kernel.msgmnb = 65536

# Controls the default maxmimum size of a mesage queue
kernel.msgmax = 65536

# Controls the maximum shared segment size, in bytes
kernel.shmmax = 4294967295

# Controls the maximum number of shared memory segments, in pages
kernel.shmall = 268435456
net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_syn_recv = 30
net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_time_wait = 30
net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_fin_wait = 30
net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_close_wait = 30
kernel.panic=5
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 2048
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max = 50485760
net.nf_conntrack_max = 50485760
net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max = 50485760
net.ipv4.ip_conntrack_max = 262144
 
Old 07-18-2009, 03:42 AM   #6
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looks fine to me...

try to turn off your Firewall and SELinux
you can also try
iptables -F
 
Old 07-18-2009, 03:49 AM   #7
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looks fine to me...

try to turn off your Firewall and SELinux
you can also try
iptables -F
Yeah SELinux is disabled already and tried disabling firewalls problem still occurs, hmm. I'm not sure what else locally on my box could be causing slow speeds, I'm starting to think it is a network issue or a hardware issue on my box.
 
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I'm starting to think it is a network issue
may be your server connected to switch(with other servers) or something, and it reached the 100MB limit
 
Old 09-14-2009, 07:52 AM   #9
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Transfer speeds both download and upload are both very slow at around ~50kb/s.
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may be your server connected to switch(with other servers) or something, and it reached the 100MB limit
What am I missing? -- How can a 100MB (= 1,024,000kb) limit cause 50kb speeds?
 
  


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