[wellylug] Gigabit Ethernet NIC recommendation

David Antliff david.antliff at gmail.com
Sun Jul 3 19:16:15 NZST 2011


On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 18:36, Bruce Hoult wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Brent wrote:
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>> The intel Pro chipsets are well supported. Any modern Realtek chipset based card should work out of the box. Not the best chipset or driver around, and can be a bit heavier on cpu loading than other
>
> Realtek had a justified reputation as a CPU hog in 100baseT days, but that approach simply wasn't going to work for 1000 so they got better, but still fairly piggy.
> I just tried a wget from a perl cgi on my GA-P55-UD4 Hackintosh, which has a Realtek gigE. While sending 105 MB/sec (840 Mbps) I saw httpd using 65% of a core and kernel_task using 55%. (Perl was using 7%)
> http://hoult.org/realtek_at_840Mbps.png
> I've got plenty of cores, but it would be nice to spend less CPU on driving ethernet.
> Perhaps Linux does better.


Thanks guys, that info gives me something to go on.

Regards,

-- David.



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