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From: steve@eagle.ais.net (Stephen Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Performance 3Com 3C509 vs. 3C590?
Date: 8 Jul 1996 15:59:06 GMT
Organization: American Information Systems, Inc.
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Michael Wang (mwang@pandadesigns.com) wrote:
: Hi, does anybody have know whether or not the 3COM 3C590 (PCI) offers
: better performance under BSDI 2.1 compared with the 3C509 (ISA)?
: I'm trying to spec a Pentium system for a heavy-traffic Web server and
: wanted to know if it was worth the few extra dollars to get the PCI
: version.
Warning: The following _may_ have changed recently, but I have no
knowledge of any such changes.
BSDI's support for the 3C590/595 is somewhat broken. Under high-load
situations (we run ftp.usr.com, amongst other traffic hogs), the drivers
for the 590/595 exhibit their immaturity, and hang periodically. This
problem has been discussed at lenght with BSDI, and the only reasonable
fix so far has been to move to a SMC card instead. We had about 10 of
the 590/595 card mix installed, and had to pull them all to be replaced
with SMC cards.
Steve
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