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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high system usage / poor SMP network performance
To: v.sweeney@barrysworld.com (Vincent Sweeney)
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:54:56 +0000 (GMT)
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>     CPU0 states: 27.2% user, 62.4% system,  0.0% nice,  9.2% idle
>     CPU1 states: 28.4% user, 62.3% system,  0.0% nice,  8.1% idle

The important bit here is     ^^^^^^^^ that one. Something is causing 
horrendous lock contention it appears. Is the e100 driver optimised for SMP 
yet ? Do you get better numbers if you use the eepro100 driver ?
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