From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 22 19:34:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4386D16A42D for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:34:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk (host-84-9-223-82.bulldogdsl.com [84.9.223.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B95D43D80 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:34:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453F8FD04B for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:34:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.devrandom.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25697-02 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:34:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.1.177] (unknown [192.168.1.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0EA6FD01D for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:34:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Chris Howells Organization: K Desktop Environment To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:32:44 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060322185241.98216.qmail@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060322185241.98216.qmail@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603221932.44334.howells@kde.org> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at devrandom.org.uk X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:22:59 +0000 Subject: Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:34:44 -0000 On Wednesday 22 March 2006 18:52, Arne Woerner wrote: > It is an ECS K7VMM or K7VMM+ if I recall it correctly... Bought in > 2003... > > Is it easy to explain, why the 266FSB cannot do 8Gbit/sec without > problem? I mean: 2*133MHz*32bit=8.3125Gbit/sec... Is the MMU too > slow (e. g. due to "cheap" implementation of cache strategies) to > utilize the FSB to the maximum? I'd be tempted to blame the Via chipset. -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org