Package: network-manager Version: 0.8-1 Severity: normal File: network-manager
This may more properly belong to the ath5k driver or kernel but since it was my machine's recent migration to network-manager that caused me to notice it, I'll report it here - please feel free to reassign. The ath5k driver apparently uses lots of cpu and causes long pauses in connectivity when the wireless networks available are being scanned...since network manager does this a lot, it leads to persistent and annoying networking hangs, particularly noticable in interactive sessions (ie, ssh). It took me a while to figure out what was going on - throughput with scp, ftp, etc seemed fine, but there were frequent pauses otherwise even when signal strength seemed fine. Finally I noticed in 'top' the phy0 process spiking CPU whenever this happened. I found this bug against Fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506659 which claims that there is unspecified "work done in the upstream kernel that will mitigate this issue." This is probably the upstream bug - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12635 I figured for tracking purposes there should be something in Debian about this problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii dhcp3-client 3.1.3-2 DHCP client ii ifupdown 0.6.10 high level tools to configure netw ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.84-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnutls26 2.8.5-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgudev-1.0-0 151-2 GObject-based wrapper library for ii libnl1 1.1-5 library for dealing with netlink s ii libnm-glib2 0.8-1 network management framework (GLib ii libnm-util1 0.8-1 network management framework (shar ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.96-1 PolicyKit Authorization API ii libuuid1 2.16.2-0 Universally Unique ID library ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii udev 151-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii wpasupplicant 0.6.10-2 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I Versions of packages network-manager recommends: ii dnsmasq-base 2.52-1 A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP ii iptables 1.4.6-2 administration tools for packet fi ii modemmanager 0.3-2 D-Bus service for managing modems pn network-manager-gnome | ne <none> (no description available) ii policykit-1 0.96-1 framework for managing administrat ii ppp 2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da Versions of packages network-manager suggests: ii avahi-autoipd 0.6.25-3 Avahi IPv4LL network address confi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
