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Forcedeth performance problems

February 27, 2006 - 7:02am
Submitted by piergi on February 27, 2006 - 7:02am.
Linux

Hello,

I have a dual ethernet motherboard, with a marvell and an nvidia cards.

With the nvidia card connected, when running mldonkey + azureus, i.e. having netstat list more or less 400 peers (connections), I have horrible DNS lookup times, in the order of 15 seconds average.

When switching to the Marvell card, DNS times go back to about 0.3 seconds.

uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.15 #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 8 15:23:09 CET 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

less forcedeth.c
/*
* forcedeth: Ethernet driver for NVIDIA nForce media access controllers.
*
* Note: This driver is a cleanroom reimplementation based on reverse
...
#define FORCEDETH_VERSION "0.48"

lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2)
05:0a.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
05:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
05:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)

Look for warnings/errors rela

February 27, 2006 - 7:31am
Anonymous (not verified)

Look for warnings/errors related to the NIC in dmesg, and check ifconfig for RX/TX/collision errors.

Is it connected to a hub or a switch? Does auto-negotiation fail? (eg. is it running at full duplex when connected to a hub, etc..)

Disable preempt.

Probleme with Unknown Devices

June 28, 2006 - 2:20pm
Anonymous (not verified)

Hi,

I have a MotherBoard Tyan TomCat K8E (S2865) with a Debian Sarge 2.6.17. But when I run lspci command, I have only Unknown Devices on the list.

I saw that you have a similar (or near) MotherBoard so have you got some problems to install your drivers and if yes, how do you resolve it?

Thanks.

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