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From: glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: nfsd-udp very cpu hungry...
Date: 9 Jul 1993 06:31:11 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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y
 ep the problem is definitely the ne2000 driver.  I also have a 486/66 c
ompute\
r, and when it was using the ne2000 driver, it would come to a virtual stand s\
till...during NFS services.  You could barely telnet in....  Not 
only did itgobable
Auto-s up cpu time, it also transfers                                    ed file
s at a max 75k (according to my stopwatch..).  However, when I switch to a wd
8013 card, I got up to 6 timesthe rates and absolutely no visible slow
 down in the computer.  Oh yeah, this
was also after I upgrad
Auto-saving...done     ed to the NetBSD-curre
                                             nt sources with the new ed drive
r\
...  Not only does the ne2000 driver have problems with performance, it also
has problems with theo's ifconfig -a... somehow it only manages to spit out
the parameters for the ne0, and give four inappropriate i
Auto-saving...done                                       otc                                                          ctls..  very 
depressing.  I don't think the problem is with the ne2000 card.  With commerci
\
al software like FTP's, my ne2000 actually transfers faster than my w
d8013!!                             

-Greg Tanaka
p.s. I hope it is just my screen that got messed up and not the message..