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From: Young Lab <sy@alamak.bchem.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Kingston DE21040, ethernet, sucks up memory?
Date: 12 Dec 1995 05:00:56 GMT
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Respond to alamak@animal.blarg.net

I have been trying to find a good PCI Ethernet card for FreeBSD...

I found that Intel Etherexpress (not PCI) gives timeout errors.

The Kingston PCI card I tried will work with the de0 driver but it 
starts using more and more memory and after 6 hours it just stopped 
working though it did not crash the machine. The chipset is DEC DE21040 
and the docs say that this chipset is supported. In particular it used 
up 18MB of Cache memory and 9 extra Active as opposed the 3C503 card I 
tried which did neither. I did turn off the PlugNPlay, so I guess it is 
time to order one of those SMC cards. Any other recomendations, I am 
running a web server with many hits a second?

John D. Saario   sjohn@alamak.bchem.washington.edu alamak@blarg.net