From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 2 0: 7:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52EB837B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:07:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2ADA43EB2 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:07:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 3054 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Dec 2002 08:07:24 -0000 Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:07:24 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any ideas at all about network problem? In-Reply-To: <3DEB1374.9E9BFDB@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Craig Reyenga wrote: > > I just tried a 3com 3c905 NIC (my roommate's) and it _also_ > > transfers slowly (about 3.5MB/sec, so just under half of what i used to > > get with my realtek in -stable). It also spit out a few messages: > > [ ... ] > > > I'd really rather not play around with different versions of FreeBSD to > > fix this problem, because this computer is where I keep all of my stuff, > > and with exams, I just won't have the time. Yes I know that I "shouldn't be > > using 5.0 then" but a problem is a problem and it should be fixed. > > Your alternative to doing the necessary binary search is to > provide enough information that someone else can repeat the > reduced performance you are getting with your hardware, so > that they can perform the binary search on your behalf. > > FWIW, the root cause is likely a result of something in the > last 8 months, which means log2(240)+1 = 8 compiles to find > the problem on your hardware; if, in the last 2.5 years, > which we know to be the case, it's log2(2.5*365)+1 = 10 > compiles. My guess is mii_tick() latency. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message