Re: nfs write speed performance... still

[Brad <brad_(_at_)_comstyle_(_dot_)_com>]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:53:01AM -0700, jared r r spiegel wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 10:28:47AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > On Friday 05 November 2004 10:04, jared r r spiegel wrote:
> > >   i have an integrated xl0 on my motherboard ( tyan tiger dual athlon ),
> > >   and it sucks ass for NFS.
> > 
> > Allright, so I guess I should try and buy some other network cards.
> > Obviously, people here seem to like dc(4), so I'll try to find some of those.
> > Thanks a lot.
> 
>   a bit of devil's advocating on the dc(4) NICs ( or at least the linksys lne
>   100tx v4 knockoff ADMTEK something-something i have (this is different than the NIC
>   i am borrowing)):
> 
>   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=108602757127104&w=2
> 
>   so just any dc is probably not the holy grail.
> 
>   in that post i mention the PC not booting with an fxp(4); i've since found
>   out that the issue was just the m/b being hokey.  AGP was kinda hokey on 
>   that m/b too.
> 
>   jared

The issues with the ADMtek based dc(4) NICs most likely has been fixed in -current.

// Brad