From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 07:36:11 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 ACA6237B401 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 07:36:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 965DB43FDF for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 07:36:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h63Ea456037107; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 09:36:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3F043F3A.1030907@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 09:35:38 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Gilbert 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> <16128.42007.75314.462685@canoe.velocet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 14:36:12 -0000 David Gilbert wrote: >>>>>>"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. What would be a good initial start hardware-wise? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------