- Published:
- December 23, 2009 – 9:26 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
We recently did some speed testing on a few of the servers on our network, and we were not receiving the speeds expected considering they were sitting on a physical 100mbps ethernet port. The servers were indeed on physical 100mbps connection, however wget (TCP/IP, HTTP Port 80) download tests showed only a max of about 1.5MB/sec (note the 8bit/byte conversion, so this translates to about 12mbits).
Categories: Linux, Software, System Administration, Ubuntu
Tagged: Ethernet, kernel, Linux, network, speed, tcp/ip
- Published:
- December 29, 2008 – 3:58 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
I recently got stuck while trying to install Headless Virtualbox on a Centos 5.2 server per the directions at Howtoforge here. The RPM failed with the error that it couldn’t find the kernel source. I thought I had already installed kernel-devel, and confirmed that I did. The instructions were to define the KERN_DIR variable like [...]
Categories: Configurations, Linux, Programs, Shell, Software, System Administration
Tagged: error, kernel, virtualbox