Hello,

I have 1.5.1 EtherCAT Master running on two machines: one is Intel-Atom based 
with two e1000e network interfaces, the other is a core i7 with an Intel 
82579LM Ethernet interface. The operating system is Ubuntu 10.04LTS running the 
2.6.33.7.2-rt30 kernel (RT PREEMPT).

A year ago, I was able to get the EtherLAB EtherCAT master up and running on 
similar computers with frame rates around 2000/sec. However, despite running 
the same program from a year ago with the same hardware, I can't get the frame 
rate to exceed 250/sec on either machine. With both the generic and e1000e 
drivers, the results are exactly the same (which is odd).

I saw this in the mailing list archives:
[snip]
Now as I understand the product to get an update rate of 10 micro
seconds for a small number of IO (that's what we have) we need to get
the tx frame rate much higher than the standard 250/sec.

[/snip]

Is the frame rate capped at 250/sec? Is there a setting I need to change, or 
some configuration I can modify? I suspect there is something easy and stupid I 
am overlooking, but I'm at a loss.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Thanks
Tom

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