Re: kernel 2.4.2 network performances

2001-03-22 Thread Anders Peter Fugmann
Hi again. I've written my own test program, and I get 12M throughput. I used a packet size of 1024 Bytes. Smaller packages seems to result in less throughput. There was no load on the machine I tested on. Does the throughput get better is there is a lot of stress on the machine? (eg. compilin

Re: kernel 2.4.2 network performances

2001-03-21 Thread Anders Peter Fugmann
Hi Jerome. As Mr. Hafting says, is seems that there is a softirq missing somewhere. If this is the case, it should help to make some add some systemcalls in your program, since a softirq should happen at every system-call exit. Try adding: getpid(); in the innermost loop, and see if i

Re: Kernel 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Ted Gervais
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Keith Owens wrote: Thanks Keith for your note. I will check out your 'points' and see what happens. Anything is possible.. > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:57:36 +1100 > From: Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Kernel 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:40:42 -0400 (AST), Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >unix:/etc# insmod soundmodem >Using /lib/modules/2.4.2-ac20/kernel/drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/soundmodem.o >/lib/modules/2.4.2-ac20/kernel/drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/soundmodem.o: >unresolved symbol hdlcd

Re: kernel 2.4.2 network performances

2001-03-16 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:42:37PM +0200, Sampsa Ranta wrote: > Yesterday I discovered that the load I can throw out to network seems to > depend on other activities running on machine. I was able to get > throughput of 33M/s with ATM when machine was idle, while I compiled > kernel at same time,

Re: kernel 2.4.2 network performances

2001-03-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Yesterday I discovered that the load I can throw out to network seems to > depend on other activities running on machine. I was able to get > throughput of 33M/s with ATM when machine was idle, while I compiled > kernel at same time, the throughput was 1

Re: Kernel 2.4.2-ac19 / ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Frank Fiene
On Friday, 16. March 2001 15:09, Mark Hahn wrote: > > Is there anything new in the ac19/ac20 patch that slows down > > video output or system throughput. With ac18, i can watch dvd > > using xine, but with ac9/ac20, the system is so slow, that 1/4 of > > the frames are skipped. > > > > Any suggest

Re: kernel 2.4.2 network performances

2001-03-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Sampsa Ranta wrote: > Yesterday I discovered that the load I can throw out to network seems to > depend on other activities running on machine. I was able to get > throughput of 33M/s with ATM when machine was idle, while I compiled > kernel at same time, the throughput was 135M/s. > > So, I sug

Re: Kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-15 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
I do have the latest version of modutils (at least, the one required by Documentation/Changes - 2.4.2), but I still have to all the line add path=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/* to /etc/modules.conf. ONLY then it works. At least it worked until yesterday... Yesterday I found out that I can't use

Re: Kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-15 Thread John Jasen
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: > Anyways - to get things to work, I have put added this statement to the > top of my /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file: > > insmod /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8139too.o. install a later version of modutils, as the /lib/modules directory tree has changed between 2.2.

Re: kernel 2.4.2 network performances

2001-03-15 Thread Sampsa Ranta
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Jerome Tollet wrote: > Hello, i have a problem with the network layer of linux kernel 2.4.2 > I wrote a minimalist program which basically sends UDP datagrams over > the network in an infinite loop. > Under Linux 2.2.x, this program floods the network and my xosview prints >

Re: kernel 2.4.2-ac14 in vmware - hangs

2001-03-08 Thread Alan Cox
> I am using VMware to test a linux install > and since I have upgraded to 2.4.2-ac14 > the VM locks up right after: Last time I looked at reports like this it seemed that vmware wasnt good enough to emulate all the stuff the 2.4 kernel uses. You may find you can get it to work with the nmi watch

Re: Kernel 2.4.2 command execution hangs and then succeded after 2 minutes....!? END!

2001-03-07 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Andrea Barisani wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > > Could you use strace and check what the apps are doing during these 2 > > minutes? > > > > Perhaps it's a variation of the nis hang: > > 2.4 doesn't forword udp error messages to the user space app, and

Re: Kernel 2.4.2 command execution hangs and then succeded after 2 minutes....!? STRACE-DUMP

2001-03-07 Thread Manfred Spraul
- Original Message - From: "Andrea Barisani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Manfred Spraul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 3:03 PM Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.2 command execution hangs and then succeded after 2 m

Re: Kernel 2.4.2 command execution hangs and then succeded after 2 minutes....!? STRACE-DUMP

2001-03-07 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Could you use strace and check what the apps are doing during these 2 > minutes? > > Perhaps it's a variation of the nis hang: > 2.4 doesn't forword udp error messages to the user space app, and thus a > nis query to a nonexistant nis server blocks unt

Re: kernel 2.4.2 SMP + ATM hangs (fwd)

2001-03-02 Thread Miguel Armas
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote: > Miguel Armas wrote: > > A couple days ago we installed a Fore 200E ATM card and after getting the > > ATM address using ilmid the machine hangs. The kernel still respond to > > pings, but the userspace is dead. > > > > If we remove SMP support in t

Re: kernel 2.4.2 SMP + ATM hangs

2001-03-02 Thread Mitchell Blank Jr
Miguel Armas wrote: > A couple days ago we installed a Fore 200E ATM card and after getting the > ATM address using ilmid the machine hangs. The kernel still respond to > pings, but the userspace is dead. > > If we remove SMP support in the kernel everything works fine (but with > only one CPU)..

Re: Kernel 2.4.2 - kernel BUG at apic.c:220!

2001-02-24 Thread pf-kernel
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > kernel BUG at apic.c:220! > >From apic.c: > <<< > > /* > * Double-check wether this APIC is really registered. > */ > if (!test_bit(GET_APIC_ID(apic_read(APIC_ID)), > &phys_cpu_present_map)) >