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From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>,
	Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: High CPU usage when forwarding packets
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 09:34:00 -0800
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On Saturday 08 March 2003 05:08, Bruce Cran wrote:
>
> Thanks, I added kern.ipc.nmbclusters=8192 to /boot/loader.conf and the
> messages have stopped.   I have also learnt that the high CPU usage is
> simply because I'm trying to push 600KB/sec over an ISA bus, and lots
> of copying is going on.   I'd like to get a PCI card and stop using the
> onboard lnc, but unfortunately the single PCI slot is already taken up
> by other other NIC.

You need a PCI dual NIC, then.  ISA network adapters suck, as you've 
noted.

-- 

        Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

Wes Peters                                               wes@softweyr.com


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