Max NFSD processes

[Petri Helenius]

Christian Hiris wrote:

>
>About a year ago i observed strong nfs performance decrease when using  
>RLT8139A nics. Nfs transfers leaded into high system load, because of an 
>excessive high packet retransmission rate. Switching over to 3Com nics solved 
>my problem.   
>  
>
The specific model and it's close relatives is only suitable for light 
use, like basic web surfing, small remote-monitoring applications, etc.
The more recent realtek chips support more sane ways to access the 
hardware and wastly increased performance.

You'll want RTL8139C+, RTL8169, etc. which use the "re" driver instead 
of the "rl" driver.

Pete