From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 20 19:50:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06482 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:50:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from net177138.hcv.com (net177138.hcv.com [209.153.177.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06387 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:49:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matthew@wolfepub.com) Received: from thunder ([10.0.0.12]) by net177138.hcv.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA01660 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:44:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matthew@wolfepub.com) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981020224656.007b76b0@firebat.wolfepub.com> X-Sender: matthew@firebat.wolfepub.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:46:56 -0400 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Matthew Hagerty Subject: Network device slowdown? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I was wondering if there are any known problems with the ed driver? I had a Kingston 10/100 PCI ethernet card based on a DEC chipset in my 2.2.6-R box and the performance was terrible (<1Mbs). I switched to a plain ISA 10Mbs ethernet card and the performance shot through the roof. I figured that the driver for DEC based cards was probably not mature yet, so I stuck with the ISA ethernet. The machine has been running for 123 days now and there seems to be a slow down in the ethernet performance again. I tried a 5MB ftp transfer from another machine on the same hub and it took over 2 minutes! That same transfer from another machine takes about 9 seconds. I know I should upgrade to 2.2.7-R but the machine is remote and I have never done an update, I usually just do a complete install from CD or the Net. I can't afford the machine to be off-line, so I'm stuck with 2.2.6-R for a while. Machine specifics: Intel Venus MB, 180MHz P-Pro, 128MB RAM, 2G-IDE, 2940UW, 4G-SCSI, CDROM, Plain ISA ethernet (used to be Kingston 10/100 PCI). Thanks, Matthew Hagerty To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message