On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Craig Reyenga wrote: > > I just tried a 3com 3c905 NIC (my roommate's) and it _also_ > > transfers slowly (about 3.5MB/sec, so just under half of what i used to > > get with my realtek in -stable). It also spit out a few messages: > > [ ... ] > > > I'd really rather not play around with different versions of FreeBSD to > > fix this problem, because this computer is where I keep all of my stuff, > > and with exams, I just won't have the time. Yes I know that I "shouldn't be > > using 5.0 then" but a problem is a problem and it should be fixed. > > Your alternative to doing the necessary binary search is to > provide enough information that someone else can repeat the > reduced performance you are getting with your hardware, so > that they can perform the binary search on your behalf. > > FWIW, the root cause is likely a result of something in the > last 8 months, which means log2(240)+1 = 8 compiles to find > the problem on your hardware; if, in the last 2.5 years, > which we know to be the case, it's log2(2.5*365)+1 = 10 > compiles.
My guess is mii_tick() latency. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
