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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:01:15 -0400, Tony Hill
<hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:34:10 -0500, Henry Nettles
><hnettles@hal-pc.org> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:00:59 -0400, Tony Hill
>><hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
<snip>
>Are you running PCI NICs on that setup? I ran a very similar system,
>except using a full-fledge Debian GNU/Linux install, on a Pentium 100
>for several years and almost never saw the CPU usage exceed 10%, even
>when I had several people sharing this network and running plenty of
>P2P connections. The only time it ever got up there was when I needed
>to throw an ISA NIC into the machine. Err, that and when I was trying
>to recompile the kernel (though even then it didn't seem to drop
>packets).
Nope, two 10/100 PCI NICs, the red interface is on a Realtek 8139, and
the green interface is on an Intel 82558.
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:01:15 -0400, Tony Hill
<hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:34:10 -0500, Henry Nettles
><hnettles@hal-pc.org> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:00:59 -0400, Tony Hill
>><hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
<snip>
>Are you running PCI NICs on that setup? I ran a very similar system,
>except using a full-fledge Debian GNU/Linux install, on a Pentium 100
>for several years and almost never saw the CPU usage exceed 10%, even
>when I had several people sharing this network and running plenty of
>P2P connections. The only time it ever got up there was when I needed
>to throw an ISA NIC into the machine. Err, that and when I was trying
>to recompile the kernel (though even then it didn't seem to drop
>packets).
Nope, two 10/100 PCI NICs, the red interface is on a Realtek 8139, and
the green interface is on an Intel 82558.