On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 06:30, Robert Fendt wrote:
On 14 May 2004 21:36:38 -0400
Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If the 8139too has statistics counters showing if it gets
RX buffer over-runs, that would be interseting to observe.
a) with 'processor' loaded
robert@betazed:~$ wget http://download.sourcemage.org/iso/smgl-i386-2.6.5-20040414.iso.bz2
--12:27:16-- http://download.sourcemage.org/iso/smgl-i386-2.6.5-20040414.iso.bz2
=> `smgl-i386-2.6.5-20040414.iso.bz2'
Resolving download.sourcemage.org... 152.2.210.81
Connecting to download.sourcemage.org[152.2.210.81]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 142,065,569 [text/plain]
0% [ ] 202,609 2.30K/s ETA 10:17:41
robert@betazed:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:6E:8A:DD:BA inet addr:129.217.168.125 Bcast:129.217.168.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:6eff:fe8a:ddba/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:933 errors:117 dropped:212 overruns:117 frame:0
BINGO
There may be a way to get more detailed stats out of the driver with
netstat or something, Jeff would know.