> A few notes to the discussion. I've seen one e1000 "bug" that ended up being > a crappy AMD pre-opteron SMP chipset with a totally useless PCI bus > implementation, which limited performance quite a bit-totally depending on > what you plugged in and in which slot. 10e milk-and-bread-store > 32/33 gige nics actually were better than server-class e1000's > in those, but weren't that great either.
That could well be my problem, this is a dual processor (not core) athlon (not opteron) tyan motherboard if I recall correctly. > Check your interrupt rates for the interface. You shouldn't be getting > anywhere near 1 interrupt/packet. If you are, something is badly wrong :). The acks (because I'm sending) are about 1.5 packets/interrupt. When this box is receiving it's moving about 3x ass much data and has a _lower_ (absolute, not per packet) interrupt load. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html