Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:40:41 +0300 From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi> To: "Don Bowman" <don@sandvine.com>, <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> Cc: <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ENOBUFS Message-ID: <049601c27889$ba8b01c0$3500080a@PHE> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701022CE5@mail.sandvine.com>
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>Well, I'm definitely finding that I have more CPU free when using >the broadcom BCM570X NIC (bge) than the Intel 8254X NIC (em). What kind of difference are we talking about here? One third or less? >http://www.etestinglabs.com/main/reports/broadcom.asp >http://www.etestinglabs.com/main/reports/3com.asp >has a benchmark of the broadcom versus the intel. This is on >a win2k platform. These benchmarks were paid for by broadcom, >so take them with a grain of salt. I think IŽll put a 3com card onto the PCI-X slot on the same chassis and do some comparisons on the same exact hardware, traffic and kernel configuration. However, if I understand correctly, PCI-X would allow optimizations that are not present on the em driver? Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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