From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 3 19:57:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96AEA106566C for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:57:57 +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 656CE8FC1B for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:57:57 +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 m23JvuQH088649; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:57:56 -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 m23JvthF090729 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:57:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <200803031957.m23JvthF090729@lava.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:56:02 -0500 To: "Thomas Krause (Webmatic)" , freebsd-performance@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <47CBBC46.8080202@webmatic.de> References: <47C59591.6040600@errno.com> <3aaaa3a0802290744x25a81d68vf0ff101f6b7a819e@mail.gmail.com> <1204302128.2126.150.camel@localhost> <3aaaa3a0802290854t639559b6if0adc4009997e9db@mail.gmail.com> <3aaaa3a0802291820j58a24de7wb39ebf2a2653f579@mail.gmail.com> <20080306013736.GD1500@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <47CBBC46.8080202@webmatic.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7 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: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:57:57 -0000 At 03:52 AM 3/3/2008, Thomas Krause (Webmatic) wrote: >>Pyun YongHyeon has fixed a lot of driver issues (i.e. re(4), bfr(4), vr(4)) >>over the last few months, many are already in CURRENT or RELENG_7 (not >>sure how many of them made it into 7.0-RELEASE) or posted as patches >>to the current@ mailing list. > >My question is: which other PCI-Express GBit NIC's then Intel's are >available on the market? I can't find others ... I have used a few bge nics that are PCIe.... However, I suggest stick with the Intel for now. My home box has a PCIe bge nic. It works fine for my home server on RELENG_7 (Samba, nfs). bge0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x167714e4 chip=0x167714e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express' class = network subclass = ethernet cap 01[48] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 cap 03[50] = VPD cap 05[58] = MSI supports 8 messages, 64 bit cap 10[d0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint bge0: mem 0xfddf0000-0xfddfffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci2 miibus0: on bge0 brgphy0: PHY 1 on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto bge0: Ethernet address: 00:10:18:14:15:43 bge0: [ITHREAD] ---Mike