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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