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From: steve@eagle.ais.net (Stephen Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Performance 3Com 3C509 vs. 3C590?
Date: 8 Jul 1996 21:28:52 GMT
Organization: American Information Systems, Inc.
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Lance Cavener (cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca) wrote:
: 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.
Well, you must be lucky. Here's the quote from Steven Hinkle @ bsdi
(hinkle@bsdi.com) regarding the 3c595 hangs:
At this point, I think I better have someone take a look at the
driver to see if there is a possible problem there. I would
recommend that you swap the 3Com card out for a SMC if possible
or use a ISA version of a 3Com card (such as the 3C509).
: >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.
Whatever.
Steve
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