Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262960AbTKEQ7M (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:59:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262982AbTKEQ7M (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:59:12 -0500 Received: from grassmarket.ucs.ed.ac.uk ([129.215.166.64]:49384 "EHLO grassmarket.ucs.ed.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262960AbTKEQ7J (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:59:09 -0500 From: Alistair John Strachan To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm2 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 17:02:00 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.93 References: <20031104225544.0773904f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031104225544.0773904f.akpm@osdl.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200311051702.00372.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1661 Lines: 43 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 06:55, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test9/2 >.6.0-test9-mm2/ > > > - Various random fixes. Maybe about half of these are 2.6.0-worthy. > > - Some improvements to the anticipatory IO scheduler and more readahead > tweaks should help some of those database benchmarks. > > The anticipatory scheduler is still a bit behind the deadline scheduler > in these random seeky loads - it most likely always will be. > > - "A new driver for the ethernet interface of the NVIDIA nForce chipset, > licensed under GPL." > > Testing of this would be appreciated. Send any reports to linux-kernel > or netdev@oss.sgi.com and Manfred will scoop them up, thanks. > I tried the force driver on my nForce2 machine and although it mostly works (DHCP works, I can receive mail over the interface, etc..) it doesn't seem to handle really bulky loads. For example, I'm running an FTP server on the machine (proftpd), and although FTP navigation works just fine, transferring large files just causes the transfer to hang indefinitely. Removing the driver and using NVIDIA's proprietary driver allows me to transfer via FTP properly. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student: CS/AI Undergraduate contact: 7/10 Darroch Court, University of Edinburgh. - 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/