Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:47:34 -0500 From: "Gabriel Lavoie" <glavoie@gmail.com> To: pyunyh@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 with rl(4) driver -> Poor performance Message-ID: <d05df8620811161647x2bffef9dqb624bf5d62732f4d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081117003856.GB50872@cdnetworks.co.kr> References: <d05df8620811161501y4a503c29vf9432b265452d4ea@mail.gmail.com> <20081117003856.GB50872@cdnetworks.co.kr>
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I guess I'll have to try both solutions! Thanks for your help. Gabriel 2008/11/16 Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> > 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<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/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 > -- Gabriel Lavoie glavoie@gmail.com
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