Re: Irqtune: some stats (was Fix for your serial/PPP problems)

1996-08-28 Thread Gerry Jensen
> Just at a guess (and I don't know ppp internals that well), it > might be PPP escaping the zero as a control character. If the > software had to handle the escape sequence for "N thousand" > nulls, it might bog it down a bit, and those escape sequences > might themselves take up more space, as t

Re: Irqtune: some stats (was Fix for your serial/PPP problems)

1996-08-27 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Philippe Troin wrote: > > I've done some statistics regarding irqtune and kernels 2.0.14 and > 2.0.15. There are some nasty panic problems running this kernel with apache httpd. I'm not sure about the details ... > > The protocol was the following: > 1) ftp to my ISP > 2

Re: Irqtune: some stats (was Fix for your serial/PPP problems)

1996-08-27 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote: > On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Philippe Troin wrote: > > > Test I was done on a 2.0.14 kernel with a 100kb nul file (dd > > if=/dev/zero...) > > Test II was done on a 2.0.14 kernel with irqtune and a 100kb nul file. > > Test III was done on a 2.0.15 kernel with a

Re: Irqtune: some stats (was Fix for your serial/PPP problems)

1996-08-27 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Philippe Troin wrote: > Test I was done on a 2.0.14 kernel with a 100kb nul file (dd > if=/dev/zero...) > Test II was done on a 2.0.14 kernel with irqtune and a 100kb nul file. > Test III was done on a 2.0.15 kernel with a 100kb nul file. > Test IV was done on a 2.0.15 kernel

Irqtune: some stats (was Fix for your serial/PPP problems)

1996-08-26 Thread Philippe Troin
I've done some statistics regarding irqtune and kernels 2.0.14 and 2.0.15. The protocol was the following: 1) ftp to my ISP 2) put a file 3) get the same file 10 times with a 'mget file file ' I timed only the 'GET', not the 'PUT' as Linux buffers outgoing packets and tricks the figures. Test