On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 02:38:59PM +0200, joerg.beyer@email.de wrote:
> Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> schrieb am 25.08.02 14:10:12:
> > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 joerg.beyer@email.de wrote:
> ...
> > That should fix your slowdown during untarring/disk access, as for your
> > NIC problem looks like you might be having a receive FIFO overflow, so
> > perhaps the card stops processing incoming packets? I have no clue,
>
> maybe this helps: outgoing transfer (from the laptop to some
> other machine) is reasonable fast: I could copy gig's of data
> away, but not to the machine. I asume sending away makes not
> so heavy use of IRQ's, right?
A laptop, you say ? And network reception is jamming while
there is high disk-write activity ?
/sbin/hdparam -v /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
I/O support = 1 (32-bit) <----- ??
unmaskirq = 1 (on) <----- ??
using_dma = 1 (on) <----- ??
keepsettings = 1 (on) <----- ??
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
> does this help?
> Joerg
>
> ps: sorry for the missing subjectline
/Matti Aarnio
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