Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:49:40 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek 8029 goes slow. 200k/second Message-ID: <199810010149.SAA04954@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:26:26 BST." <360FAAA2.DEFDC4E9@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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> Hi, > I have a couple of PCI network cards with the Realtek 8029 chip. > (a no-name and a Genuis) > > Both these cards give 1000k / sec on all of my FreeBSD machines except > my new one. > > My new PII400 (BX chipset) gives just 200k / second on our lab network. > Perfect test conditions - no other network traffic. > New PC has 128 Megs of RAM, tried both AGP and PCI video card and runs > SNAP1998-0804. > > Any ideas what is going on? Start by defaulting your BIOS config; sounds like you may have really excessive I/O cycle delays enabled. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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