From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 13 15:30:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from server1.huntsvilleal.com (server1.huntsvilleal.com [63.147.8.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFAF937B43C for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:30:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Spaz.HuntsvilleAL.COM (spaz.huntsvilleal.com [63.147.8.31]) by server1.huntsvilleal.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA23840; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:02:54 -0400 Received: from Barricuda.Catonic.NET (barricuda [216.126.175.226]) by Spaz.HuntsvilleAL.COM (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA39043; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:29:54 GMT (envelope-from kris@catonic.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Barricuda.Catonic.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA12656; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:29:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kris@barricuda.catonic.net) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:29:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Kris Kirby To: Stephen Hocking Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card? In-Reply-To: <200009102007.e8AK7KG15668@bloop.craftncomp.com> Message-ID: X-Tech-Support-Email: bofh@catonic.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. ----- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. | ------------------------------------------------------- "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message