From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 16:51:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9AD106566B; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:51:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [64.7.153.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB51C8FC3A; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:51:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1TGpP6k011213; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:51:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from mdt-xp.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m1TGpOtb072637 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:51:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <200802291651.m1TGpOtb072637@lava.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:49:25 -0500 To: Chris , "Ted Mittelstaedt" From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0802290744x25a81d68vf0ff101f6b7a819e@mail.gmail.com > References: <47C59591.6040600@errno.com> <3aaaa3a0802290744x25a81d68vf0ff101f6b7a819e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:11:13 +0000 Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Oliver Herold , Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:51:27 -0000 At 10:44 AM 2/29/2008, Chris wrote: >A weakness of freebsd is its fussyness over hardware in particular >network cards, time and time again I see posts here telling people to >go out buying expensive intel pro 1000 cards just so they can use the >operating system properly when I think its reasonable to expect >mainstream hardware to work, eg. realtek is mainstream and common as a A realtek as in rl (not re) works quite well (as in stable, predictable performance)-- we buy these for about $5 each from our supplier and are quite common. While it would be nice that all network cards worked as well as the em nics, its an issue that is easy to work around-- after all, I would rather be limited by my nic driver choice as opposed to vm and network stack issues which I cant work around. Also thankfully, a large chunk of the server MB market uses em nics. Yes, bge/bce based nics do seem to perform poorly on FreeBSD. Hopefully Broadcom might put similar resources into driver development as Intel does/has. ---Mike