Re: NetBSD/sparc64 and GbE performance
[email protected] (John Nemeth)
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64 |
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On Sep 27, 10:48am, Matthias Scheler wrote:
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} what performance do people get with GbE cards in NetBSD/sparc64 systems?
} I get about 200Mb/s with the wm(4) card in my ULTRA60. If I remember
} correctly Solaris 10 achieved twice the throughput with a cas(4) card.
} But I seriously doubt that the cas(4) hardware is faster or even as
} fast as a wm(4) card.
Why? Have you ever read the specs of cas(4)? It's a rather
impressive chip. Unfortunately, NetBSD doesn't take anything like full
advantage of it. Heck, it doesn't even work on i386. Now that I have
additional time, hopefully I'll remedy that in the not too distant
future.
}-- End of excerpt from Matthias Scheler