* Timothy Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-05 19:21]: > On Friday 05 August 2005 12:09 pm, Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Timothy Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-05 18:06]: > > > Replacing the NIC's with em or some other well designed gigabit card > > em is not a well designed gigabit card. > > > might help if his interrupt count are high > > not at all, there is no int mitigation on em. > > well, the hardware supports it, but there's so many bugs that it is > > turned off - at least here, not sure what linux does. > Henning, I'm sure this is a stupid question but are the int mitigation > problems generic or specific to the em line?
hardware bugs in em > Would a sk based card work better? yes, they have pretty much perfect int mitigation -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
