Re: Tuning Gigabit

From: Craig Reyenga (craig_at_craig.afraid.org)
Date: 06/29/03

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    To: "David Gilbert" <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
    Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 00:14:09 -0700
    
    

    From: "David Gilbert" <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
    > >>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> writes:
    >
    > Gregory> Will you please summarize the motherboard performance data so
    > Gregory> we know which boards to buy and which to skip? Thanks.
    >
    > I've been working on such a summary. So far, the 'nvidia' chipset
    > boards have all tested badly. They couldn't be coaxed to pass more
    > than 100meg of traffic by any means we could discern.

    It's kind of funny that my FIC VA-503+ from 1997 washes the Nvidia aside.

    >
    > The K7S5A has been our mainstay. Many of them are DOA, but the ones
    > that pass a couple weeks of cpuburn (see port) ... both on cpu and
    > memory tests ... work amazingly well. These boards are limited to 300
    > megabit total thruput by being a 33Mhz 32bit PCI bus.
    >

    What tools in FreeBSD could you use to see that the PCI bus is the limiting
    factor? Or is it simply done with a calculator?

    [snip]

    -Craig

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