Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:38:56 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Gabriel Lavoie <glavoie@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 with rl(4) driver -> Poor performance Message-ID: <20081117003856.GB50872@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <d05df8620811161501y4a503c29vf9432b265452d4ea@mail.gmail.com> References: <d05df8620811161501y4a503c29vf9432b265452d4ea@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:01:58PM -0500, Gabriel Lavoie wrote: > Hello, > I recently built a new system to use as a home server. This system has > an Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200, 4GB RAM and an Asus P5KPL-CM motherboard > which has an Atheros L1E network adapter, not yet supported on FreeBSD. For ale(4) was committed to HEAD. If you're using lastest stable/7 see the following URL. http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/README > now, I use a Realtek 8139 PCI adapter that uses the rl(4) driver, but the > upload performances are really poor (under 1 MB/sec). Is there any way to > improve the performance with this driver? This adapter was in a Linux system > with a Pentium III processor before and I could upload/download at around 10 > MB/sec in my local network with no problem at all. > There was a bus_dma(9) bug in rl(4) and it was fixed in HEAD. How about rl(4) in HEAD? I guess it would build with minor modification. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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