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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!usenet From: matt@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Kingston DE21040, ethernet, sucks up memory? Date: 13 Dec 1995 20:31:56 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 25 Sender: thomas@netrix.lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) Message-ID: <4and7s$erl@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> References: <4aj2a8$3qj@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: netrix.lkg.dec.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In-Reply-To: <4aj2a8$3qj@nntp5.u.washington.edu> To: Young Lab <sy@alamak.bchem.washington.edu> In article <4aj2a8$3qj@nntp5.u.washington.edu>, Young Lab <sy@alamak.bchem.washington.edu> writes: >The Kingston PCI card I tried will work with the de0 driver but it >starts using more and more memory and after 6 hours it just stopped >working though it did not crash the machine. The chipset is DEC DE21040 >and the docs say that this chipset is supported. In particular it used >up 18MB of Cache memory and 9 extra Active as opposed the 3C503 card I >tried which did neither. I did turn off the PlugNPlay, so I guess it is >time to order one of those SMC cards. Any other recomendations, I am >running a web server with many hits a second? FWIW, if the de driver recognized the card, then it was probably DC21040 based and the Kingston documentation is in error. How did you determine that the de driver was using more and more memory? What version of FreeBSD are you running? I don't know of any memory leaks in if_de.c at this point in time. But if there are some, I certainly want to fix them. -- Matt Thomas Internet: thomas@lkg.dec.com U*X Networking WWW URL: http://ftp.dec.com/%7Ethomas/ Digital Equipment Corporation Disclaimer: This message reflects my Littleton, MA own warped views, etc.