In article <3.0.3.32.19971003053219.02fb52a0@ranier.altavista-software.com>,
	Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> writes:
> On what type of system?

An AMD 486DX133 on a Soyo board running NetBSD-i386 1.2G.

> That messages means the tulip chip is incapable of dma'ing fast enough
> (1.25MB/s!) to keep the transmit FIFO not empty.

Hmm, the NCR is able to get about 4MB/sec from an IBM DPES 31080, so
the board seems not be the bottleneck.

> Is there other PCI traffic or ...

An NCR 53c810 and a DEC 21040 card.

> ... slow ISA cards?

A stone time ISA VGA card. But it's only used for console output.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/