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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:29:46 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>
To:        Stephen Hocking <shocking@houston.rr.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009131722590.12334-100000@barricuda.catonic.net>
In-Reply-To: <200009102007.e8AK7KG15668@bloop.craftncomp.com>

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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote:

> My main reason for wanting to replace the wretched thing is that it
> keeps on hanging when doing lots of writes under NFS (when it's a
> client), even when the write size is reduced to 2k. Everyone's
> currently banging away at the new SMP code, so rather than plague Bill
> Paul with requests about the if_sn driver, I'm thinking of just
> getting a more reliable card.

This comes to mind: mount_nfs -s -r 1024 -w 1024 -t 30

Whenever I use 10Mbit LAN for NFS, I use 1K blocksizes. This dates back
from me installing FreeBSD 2.2.5 on a 486/33 from a 386-16 luggable. That
and FreeBSD doesn't seize to badly waiting for NFS. 
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Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
<kris@nospam.catonic.net>   |    
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