From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri May 5 22:29:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a1-3b058.neo.rr.com [24.93.181.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E0B37B94E for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 22:29:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@argos.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA24773; Sat, 6 May 2000 01:29:03 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 01:29:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin To: Brett Glass Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why would fxp be slower than ed? In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000505222842.043b5e00@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > upgraded from 16K to 24K of RAM at the same time and kernel memory 24K?!?! Wow! How'd you get the kernel that small? :) I ran into a lot of PCI 486 boards that had "issues". Keep in mind that the PCI spec was fairly incomplete and open to the manufacturer's interpretation as to how it should work. I have a PCI 486 running as a little internal web server that bogged down incredibly when I put a Diamond PCI video card in it -- went back to the old ISA Trident 8900, and things were back to normal. There may be some BIOS config settings in there that may help - bus priority/speed, IRQ designations, etc... Depends on the board. I'll bet you a shiny new penny (you pay for postage) that a cheap 75MHz Pentium board would reverse the problem. My fxp cards blow the socks off the NE2K's that I replaced... --mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message