On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 10:59:11AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have found some information on how to improve performance in win98 by asigning
> direct memory to the network card. This information can be found at
> http://www.speedguide.net/
>
> under the title "Cable Modems & xDSL Tips" you can find the file " System.ini
> Network Card Tweak".
>
> There is a noticable performance increase when this is done.
You've done it, or they just say it's so? That's a really weird
piece of advice, I think. How could dedicated buffer space be
usefully universal to drivers? Each of the different device
drivers must have their own idea of how to optimise their
performance, and the OS has different strategies for network
devices, vs disk devices, etc.
> My question is can this tweaking be done in RH?
I think that would be pretty unlikely. Every Unix system I've
encountered in the last (?10?) years has no problem saturating a
10base[T2] Ethernet, and I doubt that you can go much faster than
that. If you have PCI NICs, then you won't even have noticible
processor load.
The "network tweaks" that usually make a difference are configuration
options, like getting the MTU right, and so on. I think that cable
modems use standard Ethernet MTUs and window sizes, so the defaults
should be close to optimal.
--
Andrew
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