FreeBSD-6.1/amd64 bge(4) driver performance problems

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:47:32PM +0200, Vladimir Terziev wrote:
> It seems the bge(4) driver has severe performance problems (may be
> especially in my configuration).
> I tried test scp(1) to a remote machine, using one of the BCM5721 NICs.
> The average speed which has been reached was 200kBps.

Can you try forcing the interface back to 100mbit, half duplex? I've
seen issues with a switch before resulting in exactly that kind of
performance.

Joerg