matthew green wrote:
> 
>    >i've been using one under netbsd on sparc & sparc64 (alternatively,
>    >i only have one card) for a few years and it seems to work as fine
>    >as that card can.
> 
>    I'll second that but now Matt has me curious: 'as fine as the that
>    card can [perform]'.. what does that imply?  It's a half-duplex
>    card.. beyond that, what other limitations are we looking at here?
> 
> i had lots of hangs with a be card under solaris.  i've never really
> stressed it under netbsd, but perhaps it was the solaris driver..

My guess would be the solaris driver: we use two such cards in a SS20
firewall, behind which are two U1's with hme's. When making full backups
to a machine on the other side of the firewall, the workload looks like
this:

load averages:  1.84,  1.71,  1.46
17:05:47 13 processes:  4 runnable, 8 sleeping, 1 on processor
CPU states:  0.1% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system, 99.8% interrupt,  0.1%
idle
Memory: 5108K Act, 2436K Inact, 132K Wired, 101M Free, 328M Swp free

This goes on for two straight *days* (48 hours). Our intranet is still
usable, you can browse the internet, irc, whatever. It just takes
around three minutes to connect to the firewall via ssh ;)

I would say they're stable.


Tomi