On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:49:13PM +0000, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> all on the same bus? all 100MBit? all full-duplex?
> you might be hitting bus and/or interrupt contention.
Would that drag performance down below a 1MB/sec though, when that's the
only traffic on the cards ?
> if so, (esp if interrupt contention) you could try the NAPI driver
> architecture, which switches to polled io under high load (iirc).
Do tell where I could find info on this...
Kate
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