On Thursday 16 June 2005 02:27, Dan Lund wrote: > I'm having a problem that I need a little advice on. > I'm running a guest kernel 2.4.31 on a 2.6.11 host with the skas3v8 > patch installed. > The host is a IBM xSeries 335 with a 2.8 Ghz dual processor, 4Gb of RAM > installed. > > I'm running a tmpfs of 256mb, and a memlimit of 256mb on the instance. > Here's the situation, when I scp across to the machine a large number of > files "scp -r /root/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root" it seems to hang for a little > bit... the console is totally unresponsive for 10 or so seconds at a > time. (sometimes 1 - 2 mins) and the scp transfer is stalled.
> The thing that bothers me is that the bridge I've created has 397 > overruns out of 157585 RX and 692311 TX packets. I.e.? You mean the net is under-used? Using synchronous UBD (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC)? That would generate the slowdown. Turning it off and replacing ubd0= with ubd0s= gives the same safety without this big artificial slowdown (search for "bonnie++" in the archives to find a deep discussion of this issue). On my homepage, the recent -bs2 prereleases contain the backport of the fix I included in 2.6. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
