Re: slow NFSd on i386?

[Nick Nauwelaerts <nick@wanadoo.be>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:31:24 -0500
"Bob Bostwick" <bobb@digitechsystems.com> wrote:

> Some of these links are long, so I have encoded in HTML.  If this is a
> problem, let me know.
> 
> OpenBSD
> <http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&t
> h=7 34a610fe03dbcd0&seekm=fa.i8oil4v.1h6d81%40ifi.uio.no&frame=off>
> misc groups "Puzzling 3C905B behavior"
> 
> Another
> <http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-vortex/2001-Sep/index.html#42>
> good thread
>  
> One
> <http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&t
> h=b a49369a4248d667&rnum=1> more OpenBSD misc group
>  
> Obviously it's not a new problem...

I've seen messages that it's also an issue on NetBSD & FreeBSD. I did a
check of their exphy code and it differs very slightly from OpenBSD's.
I'm going to try booting those this weekend to see how they behave on
the same hardware. If they work correctly I already have something to
work from.

If not, if I pull out the cable and put it in the switch afterwards
autonegotiation works correctly. Perhaps I can find some way to emulate
that in the code. (henning mentioned attach/detach, but I'm still trying
to figure out if that's to the NIC or the wire - drivers aren't easy
code it seems :)

// nick