Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:34:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:34:58 -0400 Received: from mailgate5.cinetic.de ([217.72.192.165]:56024 "EHLO mailgate5.cinetic.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:34:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:38:59 +0200 Message-Id: <200208251238.g7PCcxX03888@mailgate5.cinetic.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Organization: http://freemail.web.de/ From: To: joerg.beyer@email.de, "ZwaneMwaikambo" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: big IRQ latencies, was: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 874 Lines: 24 Zwane Mwaikambo schrieb am 25.08.02 14:10:12: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 joerg.beyer@email.de wrote: ... > That should fix your slowdown during untarring/disk access, as for your > NIC problem looks like you might be having a receive FIFO overflow, so > perhaps the card stops processing incoming packets? I have no clue, maybe this helps: outgoing transfer (from the laptop to some other machine) is reasonable fast: I could copy gig's of data away, but not to the machine. I asume sending away makes not so heavy use of IRQ's, right? does this help? Joerg ps: sorry for the missing subjectline - 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/