From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 12:00:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B80237B426 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:00:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop015.verizon.net (pop015pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682FA43FAF for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:00:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by pop015.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030714190021.ZLXX20810.pop015.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:00:21 -0500 Message-ID: <3F12FDBF.9060508@mac.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:00:15 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <20030714153350.52a0c952.hscholz@raisdorf.net> In-Reply-To: <20030714153350.52a0c952.hscholz@raisdorf.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop015.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:00:21 -0500 Subject: Re: Network performance tuning article X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:00:23 -0000 Hendrik Scholz wrote: > Hi! Hi, Hendrik-- > I've started a document about performance tuning some time ago and as of > now it is in a state where others could benefit from it/contribute to > it. I've put all documents on > http://home.raisdorf.net/public/networkperf/ > http://home.raisdorf.net/public/networkperf/article.html contains the > complete article rendered as (ah, you already guessed that :)) HTML. Congratulations on managing to get the docbook port working, your article marked up, and pushed out. :-) I'm not sure what kind of feedback you're looking for, although I can think of some obvious things: A paragraph should be more than one sentence. A section should be more than one paragraph. ...but it's likely that you already intend to add more content and expand sections as time and motivation permit. -- Something like: "The right NIC can drastically reduce the load caused by network traffic. Modern systems can easily saturate a 100Mbit link with a low-cost card. Since these cards only support a very basic set of features (like the Realtek 8139 based cards) the main CPU has to perform simple tasks which could be offloaded to the NIC itself. If you want to run a busy machine saving some bucks on the NIC is definitly wrong." ...should be spell-checked and changed in structure. Try: "The right NIC can drastically reduce the system overheard caused by network traffic. Modern systems can easily saturate a 100Mbit link even with a low-cost card. However, since cheap NICs (for example, ones based on the Realtek 8139 chipset) only support a very basic set of features, the main CPU has to perform simple tasks which could otherwise be offloaded to the NIC itself. If you want to run a busy machine, it's important to purchase a high-quality NIC." -- If I was a member of the FreeBSD project who approved documentation submissions-- which I'm not-- I would probably also like to see some feedback as to where this article should go, what it's related to (eg, the tuning manpage), and perhaps other factors which I am not familiar with. -- -Chuck