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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!hookup!news.nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!news.unb.ca!agate.nbnet.nb.ca!news From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Performance 3Com 3C509 vs. 3C590? Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 19:26:28 GMT Organization: VSi Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4rrnfo$2uh@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> References: <4rkc94$q6h@ns2.mainstreet.net> <4rrb8a$c12@news.ais.net> Reply-To: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: mctnts01c18.nbnet.nb.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 steve@eagle.ais.net (Stephen Schmidt) wrote: >Michael Wang (mwang@pandadesigns.com) wrote: >: Hi, does anybody have know whether or not the 3COM 3C590 (PCI) offers >: better performance under BSDI 2.1 compared with the 3C509 (ISA)? >: I'm trying to spec a Pentium system for a heavy-traffic Web server and >: wanted to know if it was worth the few extra dollars to get the PCI >: version. >Warning: The following _may_ have changed recently, but I have no >knowledge of any such changes. >BSDI's support for the 3C590/595 is somewhat broken. Under high-load >situations (we run ftp.usr.com, amongst other traffic hogs), the drivers >for the 590/595 exhibit their immaturity, and hang periodically. No it doesnt. I have the 3c595 and it works great. Even with around 350 users on at once, it never clinches. This error occured ONLY with the 3c590, where the chipset was broken. >This >problem has been discussed at lenght with BSDI, and the only reasonable >fix so far has been to move to a SMC card instead. We had about 10 of >the 590/595 card mix installed, and had to pull them all to be replaced >with SMC cards. Welp, that doesnt make any sence.. Anyway, works for me, and thats all I care about. Lance