Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 00:01:56 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Craig Reyenga <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Christopher J Olson <chriso@tamu.edu> Subject: Re: Any ideas at all about network problem? Message-ID: <3DEB1374.9E9BFDB@mindspring.com> References: <2668299.1038795112570.JavaMail.creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca> <3DEAE3E3.234605A9@mindspring.com> <001101c299bd$d2cc53b0$0200000a@sewer.org> <3DEAEA67.97073515@mindspring.com> <001001c299c7$766a6120$0200000a@sewer.org>
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Craig Reyenga wrote: > I just tried a 3com 3c905 NIC (my roommate's) and it _also_ > transfers slowly (about 3.5MB/sec, so just under half of what i used to > get with my realtek in -stable). It also spit out a few messages: [ ... ] > I'd really rather not play around with different versions of FreeBSD to > fix this problem, because this computer is where I keep all of my stuff, > and with exams, I just won't have the time. Yes I know that I "shouldn't be > using 5.0 then" but a problem is a problem and it should be fixed. Your alternative to doing the necessary binary search is to provide enough information that someone else can repeat the reduced performance you are getting with your hardware, so that they can perform the binary search on your behalf. FWIW, the root cause is likely a result of something in the last 8 months, which means log2(240)+1 = 8 compiles to find the problem on your hardware; if, in the last 2.5 years, which we know to be the case, it's log2(2.5*365)+1 = 10 compiles. You already have hardware to test the kernels out on, to see if a particular version has the problem, so you're the logical candidate to do the compiling. Given a 1GHz machine, we are probably talking about 6 hours elapsed time, given a local CVS tree, and compiling and testing occurring serially. If you don't want to do the work, you are going to have to provide a better characterization of the problem so that it can be repeated by someone who's willing to do it on your behalf, or out of curiousity; most people who could deal with it for you aren't the types to buy RealTek or 3C905 ethernet cards, which the driver comments suggest are badly designed hardware. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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