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to: JEFF DUNLOP
from: MATT BEDYNEK
date: 1997-03-09 17:10:00
subject: CPU utilization on junk

Hello Jeff!
Friday March 07 1997 16:58, Jeff Dunlop wrote to All:
 JD> My guess is that the BusLogic is non-busmastering (and I'm kicking
 JD> myself for not writing down the model#). On an ISA machine, is there
 JD> that much difference between the two technologies? If so, anyone know
 JD> if BusLogic is Adaptec-format-compatible?
The card (netcard) probaly helped a lot, what does help is using vesa or pci 
devices, on my old server, 486dx4-100 with 32mb of ram, using the adaptec 
scsi (vesa, 2842) the utilization for the disk channel was about 2%, and with 
an isa netcard just the netcard alone was taking about 50% +, so i got a 3com 
590 pci card and with the two the utilization never went about 35% at least i 
never see it go that high.  Also make sure you can put as much memory as you 
can on it, too much its never too much ;)
Regards,
Matt
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