From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Creating a Plan 9 exhibit for an Expo. Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:41:48 -0600 From: andrey mirtchovski In-Reply-To: <414EE48B.4010107@9fs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: e5513824-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > How were they connected to the CPU? If they are on a PCI (not X) > bus then it's not surprising they are limited to 1.2Gbps. Also, the > broadcom linux drivers seem to use twice as much CPU as the > equivalent Intel chips. they were on-board broadcoms. the machines are amd64, so i don't expect them to be optimized. people have had better performance with 32-bit boxes but i've never tried them.