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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!news.ci.com.au!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!actcsiro!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!nntp.neu.edu!camelot.ccs.neu.edu!nntp.ccs.neu.edu!albert From: albert@krakatoa.ccs.neu.edu (Albert Cahalan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: NFS performance: What am I doing wrong with FreeBSD? Date: 21 Feb 1996 15:56:57 GMT Organization: Northeastern University, College of Computer Science Lines: 18 Message-ID: <ALBERT.96Feb21105657@krakatoa.ccs.neu.edu> References: <4fg59k$fmp@galaxy.ucr.edu> <bswDMJLz1.5nx@netcom.com> <slrn4hojig.jhq.hwr@snert.pilhuhn.de> <4fu76t$232@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <4gb42k$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: krakatoa.ccs.neu.edu In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 20 Feb 1996 00:19:32 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14465 comp.os.linux.development.system:18148 >>>>> "J" == J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes: >> The odd thing about this is that from everything I've heard, the 3c509 is a >> faster card than the NE2000. J> Maybe, but both suck when compared to the Lance (Am7990) cards. J> I think the FreeBSD driver for the 3c509 ain't the best after all, while J> the `ed' driver (NE1000/2000, 3c503, WD8003/WD8013) is one of the better J> drivers. If you want to benchmark this, be aware that Linux NFS client performance just took a great leap. Look for 1.3.68 soon. (1.3.67 has typos and thinkos) -- Albert Cahalan albert@ccs.neu.edu