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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!glt From: glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: nfsd-udp very cpu hungry... Date: 9 Jul 1993 06:31:11 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 26 Message-ID: <21j3bfINNeaf@gap.caltech.edu> References: <21gnsn$26s@sun.rhbnc.ac.uk> <1993Jul8.104735.16179@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu y ep the problem is definitely the ne2000 driver. I also have a 486/66 c ompute\ r, and when it was using the ne2000 driver, it would come to a virtual stand s\ till...during NFS services. You could barely telnet in.... Not only did itgobable Auto-s up cpu time, it also transfers ed file s at a max 75k (according to my stopwatch..). However, when I switch to a wd 8013 card, I got up to 6 timesthe rates and absolutely no visible slow down in the computer. Oh yeah, this was also after I upgrad Auto-saving...done ed to the NetBSD-curre nt sources with the new ed drive r\ ... Not only does the ne2000 driver have problems with performance, it also has problems with theo's ifconfig -a... somehow it only manages to spit out the parameters for the ne0, and give four inappropriate i Auto-saving...done otc ctls.. very depressing. I don't think the problem is with the ne2000 card. With commerci \ al software like FTP's, my ne2000 actually transfers faster than my w d8013!! -Greg Tanaka p.s. I hope it is just my screen that got messed up and not the message..