From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 13:57:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 885FE37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [216.138.209.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB5344001 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@velocet.ca) Received: from trooper.velocet.ca (trooper.velocet.net [216.138.242.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EFAC138805; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:56:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by trooper.velocet.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id D5D1A74D7D; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:56:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by canoe.velocet.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id 1F5504AD2; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:56:55 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16128.42007.75314.462685@canoe.velocet.net> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:56:55 -0400 To: Eric Anderson In-Reply-To: <3F003092.30405@centtech.com> References: <20030628190036.0E06B37B405@hub.freebsd.org> <000f01c33dad$1595a0f0$e602a8c0@flatline> <16126.9805.829406.368426@canoe.velocet.net> <000901c33dd1$12268780$0200000a@fireball> <16126.19861.842507.318997@canoe.velocet.net> <001f01c33e0f$1f4716d0$0200000a@fireball> <16127.2826.306427.946086@canoe.velocet.net> <3EFFC3D5.7070605@mullet.se> <3F003092.30405@centtech.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under 21.4 (patch 12) "Portable Code" XEmacs Lucid cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuning Gigabit X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:57:01 -0000 >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Anderson writes: Eric> Martin Nilsson wrote: >> I would be interested in helping to test this, I have a bunch of >> lab boxes with 64/66PCI or PCI-X slots and NICs to work with. I'm >> able to get access to most new motherboards and chipsets to test >> chipset specific performance. What I need is someone to help me >> develop useful things to test, validate results and to check >> testing methodology. Eric> I'm interested in helping with this too.. I have access to Eric> hundreds of boards, test equipment, processors, nics, you name Eric> it. I just need to be led in the right direction with this. Eric> Anyone want to lead some minions in finding out some of this Eric> info? We have a fairly well developed testing methodogy here ... with a couple of people I can lend to the task. To be useful, they'll need both root and console access to boxes (serial cross connects are fine) ... along with somone who can play with BIOS settings on request. We'd be very willing to donate the hands and eyes to do much of the volume testing. ... our only problem is buying enough new hardware. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================