the 8169 driver is pretty fast. I've measured it at more than 500mbps. it sounds like something else is misbehaving. what does /dev/irqstat say. I bet something is stuck.
- erik On Feb 18, 2016 3:30 AM, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > Hello, > > I have finally managed to install plan9 on my new workstation. > > By putting back the keyboard on the PS2 connector, I have solved some > unfelicities (with the USB->legacy emulation, the keyboard switched > every other typing to UPPERCASE...). > > The mouse, still USB connected and hence "emulated" by the BIOS, > does not react very gracefully but I will see if I can play with > the acceleration and the resolution to have a better terminal. (Or > if I manage to find a long enough cable to have a COM slot back since > there is the bare connector on the motherboard; in this case I will go > back to a com mouse and will be able to probe USB for other > devices---external disks.) > > One thing is inconvenient: I have a rtl8169 gbe pci-e ether card, but > when testing the compilation of kerTeX (it has been fixed: it works for > the last release; rio to come for METAFONT), the throughput with hget is > abysmal: 30kB/s... The disk is not a fault, reacting well enough (I have > plenty of RAM and the blocks cache for fossil is set to 3000---it could > be obviously higher). > > Setting the mtu to jumbo packet does not help. > > Is there something to tune or is it simply that the chip is not well > supported? > > TIA > -- > Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> > http://www.kergis.com/ > http://www.arts-po.fr/ > Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C > >
