From: "Massimo S." Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.10) with ESMTPS id 257229 for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:07:55 -0500 Received: from secmgr-va.2rosenthals.com ([50.73.8.217]:45608 helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by mail.2rosenthals.com with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.82_1-5b7a7c0-XX) (envelope-from ) id 1isWyZ-0000fe-0I for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:08:11 -0500 Received: from mail2.quasarbbs.net ([80.86.52.115]:10020) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.82_1-5b7a7c0-XX) (envelope-from ) id 1isWyU-0007h1-2S for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:08:07 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.199] (dtp [192.168.10.199]) by srv2 (Weasel v2.71) for ; 17 Jan 2020 20:08:05 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020206.5E22061B.0019,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020205.5E220617.000C,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 Reply-To: ml@ecomstation.it Subject: Re: [Virtualized eCS] Virtual box 6.0.14 r 133895, acpi shutdown with AOS 5.0.3 and virtual cpu - 2 cpu success To: Virtualized eCS Users Mailing List References: Organization: eComStation dot it Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:08:04 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; it-IT; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060424 Thunderbird/1.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: it-IT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Il 17/01/2020 19:33, Doug Bissett ha scritto: > On 2020-01-17, at 15:38:29, Massimo S. wrote: >> >> >> >> Il 17/01/2020 14:27, Massimo S. ha scritto: >>> Il 17/01/2020 13:13, Massimo S. ha scritto: >>>> >>>> >>>> Il 17/01/2020 11:27, Massimo S. ha scritto: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Il 17/01/2020 03:49, Doug Bissett ha scritto: >>>>>> On 2020-01-16, at 21:54:31, Massimo S. wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>> ...snip the CONFIG.SYS details... >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> It appears that you have defined two NICs. The ancient >>>>>> PCNTND.OS2 driver is for an old 100 Mbs NIC. I suggest > using the >>>>>> network driver for the Intel 1000 Mbs NIC (the first one in the > list >>>>>> works well). BigIcons are also not necessary. If you don't > want >>>>>> those things, deselect them in the installer. Randomly > REMing lines >>>>>> in CONFIG.SYS is not the best approach. >>>>> Doug, i'm in "trouble" :) >>>>> >>>>> i've put Intel pro 1000 but i'm not finding a single driver that >>>>> works with >>>>> this configuration >>>>> >>>>> altready tried, but they don't work >>>>> >>>>> e1000.os2, ibmgc.os2, ibmge.os2, mmigb.os2....  :( >>>> >>>> after some while eith the classic intel driver E1000B.OS2 it > seems to >>>> work >>>> >>>> but datarates are poor, just like with AMD PC net III 100Mbit >>>> >>>> max. download datarate VM -> laptop via ftp 5-6 > MegaBytes/sec... >>>> more than a local machine it seems a remote server connected >>>> via a 100Megabit FTTC  :( >>>> >>>> any help? >>>> thanks >>>> >>>> massimo >>> i've now moved the VM on a SATA3 SSD >>> but the ftp datarates are the same than when it was on an old > 7200 RPM >>> HDD :( >>> massimo >> >> explained the mistery! >> >> i've seen that also copying a file from a partition to another in the >> guest VM had the same datarate.... :( >> >> so i realized that it was DANIS >> >> now i've put only /!BIOS option into danis driver in config.sys >> and i get 18,7MegaBytes/sec datarates that's not so good >> but surely better >> >> any hint to speed up it? >> >> thanks >> >> massimo > > Well, first, don't use IDE disk attachments (and /!BIOS is the default > install option, for a reason). Change that to SATA (AHCI), and use > "/f /n" on the OS2AHCI.ADD line, in CONFIG.SYS. Also, define the > disk drive as being a SSD, or VBox will insert seek delays (it > doesn't matter what the real disk is). Don't try to change it without > first preparing the guest with the proper drivers. thanks for the hints i tried, but.. i went back on IDE storage IDE+SSD (danis): 121-135MegaBytes/sec SATA+SSD (os2achi): 55-71MegaBytes/sec copy a 5GB files on the same JFS partition massimo > > Whether that will speed up FTP, or not, I don't know. FTP is not > governed by disk speed, it is governed by the slowest link in the > whole chain, and that is usually something in the network. 18 MBs > is not that bad. Also, be aware, that windows changed their method > of calculating network transfer speed, about a year ago. I used to > see 20 MBs in windows, and about 16 MBs in OS/2. Now, I see > about 16 MBs in both. I have no idea what is slowing the transfer > (windows obviously got caught cheating on their performance > numbers). I can start a second transfer (from a windows machine), > using a second computer, and the same server (the old P4), and it > shows 30 MBs. Starting a third system, it will hover around 40 MBs > on the old P4, so it isn't the slower computer, it isn't the network, > and it isn't IDE, that is slowing it (the P4 doesn't support AHCI). > OS/2 to OS/2 does the same thing. >