Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 20:44:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Curio Message-ID: <199608220044.UAA01732@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <19050.840674342@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 21, 96 05:39:02 pm"
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> Hmmmm! I have a P6/200 (I *refuse* to call it a Pentium Pro, I simply
> refuse! :-) and an old, wheezing 2940 myself. Can you elaborate a little
> bit on this? What do you mean when you say "dramatically?"
>
> I actually need an extra Adaptec anyway (I'm using a Bt946c in another
> machine and would like to kick it out) so I'll dash over to the
> computer store right now and buy one, if they've any in stock.
Well dramatically means windows seem to snap open a little faster, things pop
just a bit quicker. The big improvement is when im running xfqcam (which is
spin-polling the parallel port), with xfqcam running access to NFS has (had) 2+
second pauses before dashing off and doing the access. Now, snappy, certainly
as fast as without xfqcam running, and probably a tad faster. Perhaps the old
2940 was causing lots of interupts it shouldnt have been?
In this case YMMV applies very much!
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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