Re: Abysmal network performance since 2.4.25 !!!!!...

From: Felipe Alfaro Solana
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 05:36:04 EST


On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 02:14, psycosonic wrote:
> Hey.
>
> I'm having some problems since i updated from kernel 2.4.24 to 2.4.25 .. it
> seems that 2.4.25 has some real performance problems.
> The problem is that i can't get the NIC's to work fine.. i don't know why,
> i've already used several kernel configurations..
> i've also tried with patch2.4.25pre4 and... nothin' ...even used another
> switch 10/100mbit.. not even with patch-2.4.26pre2 it goes normal,
> I've compiled the kernel in another computer, with too many different
> configurations, different hardware.. etc.. and the result is the same.
> Some friends of mine are having the same problem.
> Well.. with kernel 2.4.24 i usually had a max speed of 12Mb/s .. now , with
> 2.4.25 it only goes to 2,2Mb/s MAX speed. :(
> I've tried to use vsftpd, proftpd, apache 1.3.x, apache 2.x, samba.. etc
> etc.. with kernel 2.4.24 works pretty fine... but since 2.4.25.. wow..
> Not even with the patches 2.4.25rcX it worked.. and.. i don't know what more
> to do.

Suggestion: take a look at the changelog for 2.4.25 and see what changes
could have effect on your network performance.

For example, I had problems with my 3Com card in 2.6.4-mm1, but no on
2.6.3-mm1, so looking at the changelog I saw changes made into 3c59x.c.
Reverting one of those changes fixed my problem.

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