Mike,
These are my own perosnal findings with machines I've tinkered with.
Nothing scientific about them. I did a few trials FTPing a 600MB file
around on a 100Mb switched network between to machines (they were not
identical, but used the same ones for both tests), once with Intel
PRO/100 adapters, and once with 3com parralel tasking (forgot the
model number) adapters. I watched top both times, and noticed that
the Intels had lower interupt %s, and finished the job about 5-30
seconds faster (varied on each run). Both machines used wu-ftpd and were running
FreeBSD
3.2 - R at the time.
> > fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model,
> > beats the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU
> > overhead.
>
> Do you actually have any numbers to quantify this? There's nothing in
> the driver architecture nor any of my testing that would suggest this is
> actually the case at this point.
>
