Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262456AbTFPMiJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:38:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262934AbTFPMiJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:38:09 -0400 Received: from mail.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.8]:8718 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262456AbTFPMiG (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:38:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:51:35 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Maciej Soltysiak Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: BUG REPORT: Massive performance drop in routing throughput with 2.4.21 Message-Id: <20030616145135.0ef5c436.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20030616141806.6a92f839.skraw@ithnet.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1395 Lines: 38 On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:47:15 +0200 (CEST) Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > > there seems to be a real serious problem with 2.4.21, routing through two > > ethernet-devices. After 24 hours of a routing-only box the throughput from > > ethernet a to ethernet b decreased to something around 4-100 kByte/sec (100 > > Mbit network 2 cards ns83820). I had to drop using 2.4.21 on this box > > because of this. 2.4.20 is flawless on the machine and ran for around 100 > > days before without any troubles. Going back to 2.4.20 cured it. > Are you using any netfilter patch-o-matic patches? No. > Does it also affect eg. ssh latency even on LAN ? Not very seriously. > Since I switched my processor from Intel do Amd, I have been experiencing > similar but after longer periods of time than yours. > > I am also using VIA chipset, maybe it's a hardware driver problem. No, my two boxes have differing mb's. One is VIA, the other is Intel440BX. But I can also verify that the problem arises with 2.4.21-rc7, too. I guess it is effectively an older problem that has not been recognised so far. > Regards, > Maciej Regards, Stephan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/