Subject: Re: de/tlp performance problems ?
To: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@boogers.sf.ca.us>
List: current-users
Date: 08/22/2001 16:36:31
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:33:41PM -0700, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:16:09PM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> > 
> > I've tried both the default 'de' driver match, as well as the 'tlp' driver,
> > but the performance on them seems very poor compare to the fxp on the
> > motherboard.  I generally use ttcp to measure rough throughput, and
> > with a pair of boxes (i810 motherboards, running 1.5.1/i386, though I've
> > gotten similar results with -current),  the ttcp test NEVER completes...
> > when I look at netstat, only about 1pps is going over the interface.
> > The fxp interface gets about 81Mbps from the same boxes, same kernel.
> 
> Is the correct media being selected?  e.g. 100/full or whatever?
> If you are using auto, have you tested it with manually selected media?
> 
> -Andrew

well, the tlp driver doesn't support auto, so yes, I've set it manually to
100/full on both sides.  (double-checked)

Thanks,
+j

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Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz