Re: Network card recommendation

[Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@nospam.net>]

Hans du Plooy wrote:
> Gnu-Raiz wrote:
> 
>> Cpu nic usage is a little moot, with dual core chips,
> 
> Well, I have seen the following.  Pentium-III 1ghz with 3com nic, maxing
> the CPU under heavy network (100mbit) load such as copying stuff over
> samba/nfs.  AthlonXP 2ghz (2400+) with marvel gigabit controller,
> copying files to another marvel gigabit chip (both on ASUS boards, the
> target machine being an Athlon64 3200+ 2.2ghz), also maxing the CPU on
> both ends, and getting only about 15MB/s.  SUSE running on the Athlon,
> Gentoo on the Athlon64.
So is the CPU load caused by the copying program (scp, rsync, samba,
nfs) or by the driver? How should this be determined?

Sarunas