Subject: Re: mc0 performance
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/21/2005 15:16:23
Hi,
No, I didn't. Could you point me towards it please?
Thanks!
cheers
bruce
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 08:37:12AM -0500, Michael wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> >There was a thread last Aug about mc0 performance
> >
> >http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2004/08/26/0010.html
> Yes, I remember. The problem seems to consist of at least 3 different
> ones, some of them hardware-related. I for instance never had the bad
> performance on mc0 problem. ( UMAX S900 - someone with an 9500 and an
> identical mc had it )
>
> >Anyway, just for grins, I tried the recommendations about changing
> >the driver and all that did was up the packet loss by another 50%
> >to 100%, so that wasn't quite the right direction. Rather than
> >spending
> >hours on this though I'll probalbly just end up with a 100baseT PCI
> >board.
> Did you try Tim's latest patch? I don't know if it ended up in -current
> but he did quite a lot of work on the mc driver. On the other hand a
> cheap tlp or rtk board is most likely less trouble and gives better
> throughput anyway ( although some people seem to have trouble with
> rtk... )
>
> have fun
> Michael
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