From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 12:30:17 +0100 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20160218113017.GB2756@polynum.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [9fans] rtl8169 gbe slow Topicbox-Message-UUID: 855d8be6-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello, I have finally managed to install plan9 on my new workstation. By putting back the keyboard on the PS2 connector, I have solved some unfelicities (with the USB->legacy emulation, the keyboard switched every other typing to UPPERCASE...). The mouse, still USB connected and hence "emulated" by the BIOS, does not react very gracefully but I will see if I can play with the acceleration and the resolution to have a better terminal. (Or if I manage to find a long enough cable to have a COM slot back since there is the bare connector on the motherboard; in this case I will go back to a com mouse and will be able to probe USB for other devices---external disks.) One thing is inconvenient: I have a rtl8169 gbe pci-e ether card, but when testing the compilation of kerTeX (it has been fixed: it works for the last release; rio to come for METAFONT), the throughput with hget is abysmal: 30kB/s... The disk is not a fault, reacting well enough (I have plenty of RAM and the blocks cache for fossil is set to 3000---it could be obviously higher). Setting the mtu to jumbo packet does not help. Is there something to tune or is it simply that the chip is not well supported? TIA -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ http://www.arts-po.fr/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C