Driver - or firmware ? Don't know - since the new git snapshots run
1.1.1 which requires newer firmware from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net.
Symptom -> my new FC5 partition with 2.6.16-git kernels connects via
VNC viewer to my bittorrent box over wireless (ipw2200 to a D-Link
G604T router/AP); Dell D610 runs FC5, BT box is a K7-800 running
FC3 with a 2.6.16-rc5-git8 kernel (15+ days uptime...).
I also run Firefox on the bittorrent box; noticed today (2.6.16-git5) that
the screen refresh of pages with images was from time to time very
slow (close to unusable).
Rebooted into my FC4 partition with a 2.6.16 kernel, everything much
snappier. So I ran a scp test from my BT server to the laptop, three
times in a row the same file - a 38MB .flac with the laptop in the same
physical position (ie, no signal variation). Results...
FC5 - 2.6.16-git3:
[asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
[email protected]'s password:
KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 971.3KB/s 00:40
[asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
[email protected]'s password:
KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 1.3MB/s 00:29
[asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
[email protected]'s password:
KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 626.7KB/s 01:02
FC4 - 2.6.16:
[asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
[email protected]'s password:
KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 1.5MB/s 00:25
[asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
[email protected]'s password:
KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 1.7MB/s 00:23
[asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
[email protected]'s password:
KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 1.7MB/s 00:22
Bottom line - old driver has better performance than the new one,
but most noticeably delivers consistent performance.
I will be available for testing starting Thursday 30th as I'll be on
the road since then. Of course if the problem is identified and
fixed earlier, I won't cry ;)
Thanks,
--alessandro
"Dreamer ? Each one of us is a dreamer. We just push it down deep because
we are repeatedly told that we are not allowed to dream in real life"
(Reinhold Ziegler)
"Alessandro Suardi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Pleeeeze try to cc the right people.
> Driver - or firmware ? Don't know - since the new git snapshots run
> 1.1.1 which requires newer firmware from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net.
>
> Symptom -> my new FC5 partition with 2.6.16-git kernels connects via
> VNC viewer to my bittorrent box over wireless (ipw2200 to a D-Link
> G604T router/AP); Dell D610 runs FC5, BT box is a K7-800 running
> FC3 with a 2.6.16-rc5-git8 kernel (15+ days uptime...).
>
> I also run Firefox on the bittorrent box; noticed today (2.6.16-git5) that
> the screen refresh of pages with images was from time to time very
> slow (close to unusable).
>
> Rebooted into my FC4 partition with a 2.6.16 kernel, everything much
> snappier. So I ran a scp test from my BT server to the laptop, three
> times in a row the same file - a 38MB .flac with the laptop in the same
> physical position (ie, no signal variation). Results...
>
> FC5 - 2.6.16-git3:
>
> [asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
> Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
> [email protected]'s password:
> KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 971.3KB/s 00:40
> [asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
> Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
> [email protected]'s password:
> KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 1.3MB/s 00:29
> [asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
> Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
> [email protected]'s password:
> KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 626.7KB/s 01:02
>
>
> FC4 - 2.6.16:
>
> [asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
> Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
> [email protected]'s password:
> KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 1.5MB/s 00:25
> [asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
> Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
> [email protected]'s password:
> KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 1.7MB/s 00:23
> [asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
> Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
> [email protected]'s password:
> KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 1.7MB/s 00:22
>
> Bottom line - old driver has better performance than the new one,
> but most noticeably delivers consistent performance.
>
> I will be available for testing starting Thursday 30th as I'll be on
> the road since then. Of course if the problem is identified and
> fixed earlier, I won't cry ;)
Well. It's not a huge regression. It's a 50%ish regression. We've done
worse ;)
On 3/23/06, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Alessandro Suardi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
>
> Pleeeeze try to cc the right people.
Sorry about that - should probably defer bug reporting to times
when I'm actually supposed to be awake (2:20am doesn't fit
the bill obviously :| )
> > Driver - or firmware ? Don't know - since the new git snapshots run
> > 1.1.1 which requires newer firmware from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net.
> >
> > Symptom -> my new FC5 partition with 2.6.16-git kernels connects via
> > VNC viewer to my bittorrent box over wireless (ipw2200 to a D-Link
> > G604T router/AP); Dell D610 runs FC5, BT box is a K7-800 running
> > FC3 with a 2.6.16-rc5-git8 kernel (15+ days uptime...).
> >
> > I also run Firefox on the bittorrent box; noticed today (2.6.16-git5) that
> > the screen refresh of pages with images was from time to time very
> > slow (close to unusable).
> >
> > Rebooted into my FC4 partition with a 2.6.16 kernel, everything much
> > snappier. So I ran a scp test from my BT server to the laptop, three
> > times in a row the same file - a 38MB .flac with the laptop in the same
> > physical position (ie, no signal variation). Results...
> >
> > FC5 - 2.6.16-git3:
> >
> > [asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
> > Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
> > [email protected]'s password:
> > KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 971.3KB/s 00:40
> > [asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
> > Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
> > [email protected]'s password:
> > KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 1.3MB/s 00:29
> > [asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
> > Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
> > [email protected]'s password:
> > KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 626.7KB/s 01:02
> >
> >
> > FC4 - 2.6.16:
> >
> > [asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
> > Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
> > [email protected]'s password:
> > KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 1.5MB/s 00:25
> > [asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
> > Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
> > [email protected]'s password:
> > KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 1.7MB/s 00:23
> > [asuardi@donkey melua_2004-09-23_Berlin]$ scp KM_9-23-04_17_The\
> > Closest\ Thing\ to\ Crazy.flac 192.168.1.8:/tmp
> > [email protected]'s password:
> > KM_9-23-04_17_The Closest Thing to Crazy.flac 100% 38MB 1.7MB/s 00:22
> >
> > Bottom line - old driver has better performance than the new one,
> > but most noticeably delivers consistent performance.
> >
> > I will be available for testing starting Thursday 30th as I'll be on
> > the road since then. Of course if the problem is identified and
> > fixed earlier, I won't cry ;)
>
> Well. It's not a huge regression. It's a 50%ish regression. We've done
> worse ;)
That scp test shows 50%ish - but that was a quickie. The VNC
client even reported a 719Kbps throughput down from the more
usual 11500Kbps it starts off with. The first scp I tried when the
sluggishness was intolerable was going at 200KB/s - which
shows the problem can easily get in the neighborhood of an
order of magnitude.
Thanks,
--alessandro
"Dreamer ? Each one of us is a dreamer. We just push it down deep because
we are repeatedly told that we are not allowed to dream in real life"
(Reinhold Ziegler)
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 15:02 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> That scp test shows 50%ish - but that was a quickie. The VNC
> client even reported a 719Kbps throughput down from the more
> usual 11500Kbps it starts off with. The first scp I tried when the
> sluggishness was intolerable was going at 200KB/s - which
> shows the problem can easily get in the neighborhood of an
> order of magnitude.
What kind of wireless encryption do you use? We turned off hardware
encryption by default recently as a workaround for a firmware restart
bug. You might want to load module with "modprobe ipw2200 hwcrypto=1"
and retest.
Thanks,
-yi
On 3/24/06, Zhu Yi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 15:02 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > That scp test shows 50%ish - but that was a quickie. The VNC
> > client even reported a 719Kbps throughput down from the more
> > usual 11500Kbps it starts off with. The first scp I tried when the
> > sluggishness was intolerable was going at 200KB/s - which
> > shows the problem can easily get in the neighborhood of an
> > order of magnitude.
>
> What kind of wireless encryption do you use? We turned off hardware
> encryption by default recently as a workaround for a firmware restart
> bug. You might want to load module with "modprobe ipw2200 hwcrypto=1"
> and retest.
I actually use no encryption yet, as I still have to find out time
to call D-Link about the fact that my router hangs when I try
to set up a whitelist of MAC addresses for the wireless AP;
WPA would be up next...
Would loading the module with h/w encryption turned on
make any difference in my case ?
Thanks,
PS don't tell my neighbors ;)
--alessandro
"Dreamer ? Each one of us is a dreamer. We just push it down deep because
we are repeatedly told that we are not allowed to dream in real life"
(Reinhold Ziegler)
On 3/24/06, Zhu Yi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 15:02 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > That scp test shows 50%ish - but that was a quickie. The VNC
> > client even reported a 719Kbps throughput down from the more
> > usual 11500Kbps it starts off with. The first scp I tried when the
> > sluggishness was intolerable was going at 200KB/s - which
> > shows the problem can easily get in the neighborhood of an
> > order of magnitude.
>
> What kind of wireless encryption do you use? We turned off hardware
> encryption by default recently as a workaround for a firmware restart
> bug. You might want to load module with "modprobe ipw2200 hwcrypto=1"
> and retest.
The issue seems to have vanished in more recent kernel snapshots
(namely, 2.6.16-git3 and -git5 exhibited the problem; -git8 and -git9
did not).
I will holler if the problem pops up again... thanks,
--alessandro
"Dreamer ? Each one of us is a dreamer. We just push it down deep because
we are repeatedly told that we are not allowed to dream in real life"
(Reinhold Ziegler)