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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: nfs speed question
Date: 28 Dec 1995 10:04:55 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:
> First of all: Everyone will tell you to exchange the ne2000
> card. Wrong. You can fill the ethernet with your ne2000 cards easily
> and the FreeBSD driver will not take up more than a few CPU %.
(With your P90, you've got too much CPU cycles to burn. :) On a
slower CPU, the NE2000 is really a bad choice.)
> Serving an SGI Indy client, I get 650 MB/sec read and ~/180 KB/sec
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> write(sync) with a P90/triton/ne2000/NCR/barracouda.
Boah! :-))
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cheers, J"org
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