Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262164AbUAISBJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:01:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262446AbUAISBJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:01:09 -0500 Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net ([64.164.98.8]:55974 "EHLO mta7.pltn13.pbi.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262164AbUAISBG (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:01:06 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:00:54 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk To: Guennadi Liakhovetski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Vilain Subject: Re: 2.6.0 NFS-server low to 0 performance Message-ID: <20040109180054.GV1882@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Guennadi Liakhovetski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Vilain References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1396 Lines: 33 On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:08:29AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > Just post a few samples of the lines that differ. Any files should be sent > > off-list. > > Ok, This is the problem: > > 10:38:30.867306 0:40:f4:23:ac:91 0:50:bf:a4:59:71 ip 590: tuxscreen.grange > poirot.grange: icmp: ip reassembly time exceeded [tos 0xc0] > > A similar effect was reported in 1999 with kernel 2.3.13, also between 2 > 100mbps cards. It also was occurring with UDP NFS: > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/9908.2/0039.html > > But there were no answers, so, I am CC-ing Sam, hoping to hear, if he's > found the reason and a cure for his problem. Apart from this message I > didn't find any other relevant hits with Google. > > Is it some physical network problem, which somehow only becomes visible > under 2.6 now, with UDP (NFS) with 100mbps? Find out how many packets are being dropped on your two hosts with 2.4 and 2.6. If they're not dropping packets, maybe the ordering with a large backlog has chagned between 2.4 and 2.6 that would keep some of the fragments from being sent in time... - 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/