On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 12:34:02AM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> This is all on a LAN (of course; expecting good performance from a WAN
> is pretty futile). I use a buffer size of 256 KiB.
>From my experience tuning on a 550MHz P3 Xeon, you're better off using a
buffer size of 8-16KB that stays in the L1 cache. Of course, that was
without actually doing anything useful with the data being transferred.
Gige really does need a faster cpu in the ghz+ range. As for ns83820,
it's a work in progress. Some of the recent bugfixes may have reduced
performance, so it may need to be retuned.
-ben
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