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Date:      Sun, 29 Jun 2003 00:14:09 -0700
From:      "Craig Reyenga" <craig@craig.afraid.org>
To:        "David Gilbert" <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tuning Gigabit
Message-ID:  <000901c33e0e$09266000$0200000a@fireball>
References:  <20030628190036.0E06B37B405@hub.freebsd.org> <000f01c33dad$1595a0f0$e602a8c0@flatline> <16126.9805.829406.368426@canoe.velocet.net> <20030629003134.GV71533@klapaucius.zer0.org> <16126.18820.474512.227009@canoe.velocet.net>

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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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