From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030209AbVHZTKw (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:10:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030208AbVHZTKv (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:10:51 -0400 Received: from fmr24.intel.com ([143.183.121.16]:15240 "EHLO scsfmr004.sc.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030205AbVHZTKu (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:10:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:10:26 -0400 From: Benjamin LaHaise To: Ben Greear Cc: danial_thom@yahoo.com, Jesper Juhl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems Message-ID: <20050826191026.GA8023@linux.intel.com> References: <20050825142647.70995.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <430DF7FF.9080502@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <430DF7FF.9080502@candelatech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:55:27AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > Of course. Never found a motherboard yet with decent built-in > NICs. The built-ins on this board are tg3 and they must be on > a slow bus, because they cannot go faster than about 700Mbps > (using big pkts). There should be a number of decent boards out on the market these days. Try picking up one with a CSA gige adapter (a dedicated high bandwidth link to an e1000) or PCI Express (although that is harder to pick up on from the specifications of most motherboards). -ben