alan wrote: > I have a couple of systems with gigabit ethernet cards. If I copy a large > quantity of data to the machine I notice the data throughput start to fall > off after about 4-5 gigs. It keeps getting slower and slower the more data > that flows through the interface. Try running iostat -k -x 1 on the machine during the entire test. Have a look at the utilization rate of the disk (is it 100% or not?), throughput in KiB/s, the CPU usage (system? user? waiting? idle?), RAM used for caching (you need a "vmstat 1" in parallel for this). -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines