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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 1995 13:53:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Incredibly slow performance of 3c509 under 2.1.0-SNAP
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950810134549.8849M-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>

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Argh, this is a step in the wrong direction...

Thanks to Justin I got my geometry problems squared away.  Software 
re-installed fine, but the ethernet card on a good day with a tailwind is 
getting maybe a kilobyte or so per second.


vmstat -i and vmstat don't show any unusual activity, and adjacent boxes 
running BSD/OS and the same cards/hardware zip along like crazy.

It's especially noticeable when editing, as even with vi, it only draws 
about half the screen at a time, then a pause, then a draw, then a pause.

I just finished ftp'ing a 600kilobyte file, and it took 400 seconds at a 
grand total of 1.5Kbps.

The transfer is extremely slow in both directions, both gets and puts.

This would explain why it took something like 12 hours to install via 
FTP, I thought it was wcarchive, but it doesn't look like it.

Let's see, fresh SNAP install, on a P5-90/PCI (triton), 3c509, I think
a Cirrus PCI video, and a 2940 SCSI, with 4 Conner drives on it.

I have run BSD/OS on this config, modulo a BusLogic rather than Adaptec,
and it hauls butt.

(I should also mention that modulo networking, everything from the 
console screams).

#vmstat -i
interrupt      total      rate
clk0 irq0      186347      101
rtc0 irq8      236145      127
fdc0 irq6           1        0
sc0 irq1          286        0
Total          422779      229

#dmesg output:
FreeBSD 2.1.0-950726-SNAP #0: Thu Aug 10 11:53:38 PDT 1995
    root@news2.cdsnet.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWS2
CPU: 90-MHz Pentium 735\\90 (Pentium-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x524  Stepping=4
  Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,PSE,MCE,CX8,APIC>
real memory  = 33161216 (8096 pages)
avail memory = 31391744 (7664 pages)
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: NEC 72065B
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
scd0 not found at 0x230
1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300
ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa
ep0: aui/utp[*UTP*] address 00:20:af:a1:56:9c irq 10
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
Probing for devices on the pci0 bus:
        configuration mode 1 allows 32 devices.
chip0 <CPU-PCI bridge> rev 1 on pci0:0
chip1 <PCI-ISA bridge> rev 2 on pci0:7
vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 72 int a irq 10 on pci0:8
ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:11
ahc0: reading board settings
ahc0: Reading SEEPROM...done.
ahc0: 2940 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, aic7870, 16 SCBs
ahc0: Downloading Sequencer Program...Done
ahc0: Probing channel A
ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
ahc0: target 0 synchronous at 10.0MB/s, offset = 0xf
(ahc0:0:0): "CONNER CFP1060S 1.05GB 2035" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 1013MB (2074880 512 byte sectors)
ahc0: target 1 synchronous at 10.0MB/s, offset = 0xf
(ahc0:1:0): "CONNER CFP1060S 1.05GB 2035" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd1(ahc0:1:0): Direct-Access 1013MB (2074880 512 byte sectors)
ahc0: target 4 synchronous at 10.0MB/s, offset = 0xf
(ahc0:4:0): "CONNER CFP4207S  4.28GB 2B4B" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd2(ahc0:4:0): Direct-Access 4096MB (8388608 512 byte sectors)
ahc0: target 5 synchronous at 10.0MB/s, offset = 0xf
(ahc0:5:0): "CONNER CFP4207S  4.28GB 2B4B" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd3(ahc0:5:0): Direct-Access 4096MB (8388608 512 byte sectors)
pci0: uses 16781312 bytes of memory from f0000000 upto f1000fff.
pci0: uses 256 bytes of I/O space from 6000 upto 60ff.


Any ideas desparately appreciated, I don't want to go back.



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