On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:

> 5) your CentOS measurement 375 M/min does not reach even the 100Mbit/sec network speed limit, perhaps
>   some other application is "stealing" network or disk bandwidth.

Maybe.
Alternatively the CentOS network or disk controller driver does not
fully support the hardware and is running it in some sort of
compatiblity mode or with some feature disabled.

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