Re: General network slowness on SIS 530 with eepro100

On 15 August 2002 17:21, Christian Reis wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:41:20AM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On 13 August 2002 22:29, Christian Reis wrote:
> > > On tri, which is the referred SIS530 box, as you can see, for most runs
> > > the CPU usage is just so much higher than minas, which has practically
> > > the same setup: K6-500, old PCI (no AGP) board, eepro100 card. I'm
> > > wondering if anybody has seen something like this before?
> >
> > Start swapping hardware between these two boxes
>
> I've done it, actually. I've swapped processor, memory and video cards
> (which are the only things the boxes actually contain) and there has
> been no change. It's very strange - block read and block write consume
> enormous amounts of CPU, no matter how much I tinker. I've tried 2.4.19,
> 2.2.21, NFS patches, etc.

Network card?
Motherboard? :-)
BIOS? 8-)

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