Subject: Re: pcmcia ep0 performance awful in 1.6/-current
To: Tom Spindler <dogcow@babymeat.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 07/09/2002 11:55:02
Tom Spindler wrote:
> Ever since going from 1.5.3 to 1.6, my NFS performance with my ep0
> pcmcia ether card has been appallingly awful. I have to crank my
> reads down to -r3072, and there's amazing amounts of stuttering
> when playing mp3s.
> 
> Have any of the rest of you seen this problem? (my xi0 pc card
> gives endless timeouts, and my ne0 pc card locks up the machine...)

Do you have your kernel compiled with DIAGNOSTIC/DEBUG options?
I experienced huge performance improvement with ep* at mca? in
a slow 80386 box once I removed those options from the kernel.

Jaromir
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