From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 29 04:58:39 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 A39F937B401 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 04:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7979543F75 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 04:58:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@unixpages.org) Received: from ms-1 (ms-dienst.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.132]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HH80072IRXLLU@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:58:34 +0200 (MEST) Received: from relay.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([134.130.3.1]) by ms-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:58:33 +0200 (MEST) Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (daemon@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.92]) h5TBwWNY028926; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:58:32 +0200 (MEST) Received: from gondor.middleearth (gondor.middleearth [192.168.1.42]) by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FC51B; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:58:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by gondor.middleearth (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C8A5F474A; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:58:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:58:27 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <16126.18820.474512.227009@canoe.velocet.net> To: David Gilbert Message-id: <20030629115827.GA637@unixpages.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-PGP-Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <20030628190036.0E06B37B405@hub.freebsd.org> <000f01c33dad$1595a0f0$e602a8c0@flatline> <16126.9805.829406.368426@canoe.velocet.net> <20030629003134.GV71533@klapaucius.zer0.org> <16126.18820.474512.227009@canoe.velocet.net> cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org cc: Gregory Sutter 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: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:58:40 -0000 --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:05:56PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Gregory" =3D=3D Gregory Sutter writes: >=20 > Gregory> Will you please summarize the motherboard performance data so > Gregory> we know which boards to buy and which to skip? Thanks. >=20 > I've been working on such a summary. So far, the 'nvidia' chipset > boards have all tested badly. They couldn't be coaxed to pass more > than 100meg of traffic by any means we could discern. >=20 > The K7S5A has been our mainstay. Many of them are DOA, but the ones > that pass a couple weeks of cpuburn (see port) ... both on cpu and > memory tests ... work amazingly well. These boards are limited to 300 > megabit total thruput by being a 33Mhz 32bit PCI bus. >=20 > We've been testing mainly Athlon boards ... we havn't seen good P4 > boards ... but most of the boards we've had through for the P4 have > been workstation and not server boards. >=20 > The tiger tyan MPX is a dual board with 64 bit slots. I havn't had > time to fully benchmark it becuase we use it as a fairly primary > database server ... but it has generally been able to perform at or > near the top of the class. >=20 > There is an ASUS dusl board with 32-bit only slots and the AMD 76x > chipset (unfortunately it's far away and I can't look at it). it's > 32-bit slots run at 66Mhz and have extrodinarily good thruput. > AFAICT, it's currently out of production ... but the dual board on the > ASUS site looks very good. >=20 If you're talking about the ASUS A7M266-D, it actually has two 64bit PCI slots (powering a SCSI controller and a NIC here). It runs extremely well so far. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+/tRjbHYXjKDtmC0RApEaAKCPSYu3YiDvY4Q2eo/oYXh+VsbjwQCdFWCm 6jHcWxK5U5KJ4D2KVn8IjMI= =/U/f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi--