Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265079AbTGCRbI (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:31:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265085AbTGCRbI (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:31:08 -0400 Received: from freeside.toyota.com ([63.87.74.7]:61902 "EHLO freeside.toyota.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265079AbTGCRbG (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:31:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3F046BB5.3040202@daveigh.net> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:45:25 -0700 From: Ring Fan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Covici Cc: linux kernel Subject: Re: local nntp connections much slower in 2.5.73 than in 2.4.x References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1415 Lines: 38 John Covici wrote: >Hi. I have been noticing an nntp problem in my 2.5.73 kernel. I >have inn 2.3 set up on my machine and I use gnus to read mail and >news. Now what happens is that when gnus starts up it connects to >the server (same box) and gets all the active newsgroups. What I >have noticed is a drastic slowdown in 2.5.73 (or other 7x) than in my >2.4.20 kernel and I was wondering if anyone else has seen this or can >tell me either a workaround or what is going on with this. > Loopback interface has debugging code in current 2.5.x - Does this patch speed things up? diff -urN linux-2.5.66/drivers/net/loopback.c linux-2.5.66-faster/drivers/net/lo opback.c --- linux-2.5.66/drivers/net/loopback.c 2003-03-24 14:00:04.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.5.66-faster/drivers/net/loopback.c 2003-04-05 10:15:00.000000000 -0 800 @@ -193,8 +193,8 @@ /* Current netfilter will die with oom linearizing large skbs, * however this will be cured before 2.5.x is done. - */ dev->features |= NETIF_F_TSO; + */ dev->priv = kmalloc(sizeof(struct net_device_stats), GFP_KERNEL); if (dev->priv == NULL) - 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/