On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 10:47:58AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 07:23:23PM +1000, Philip Anderson wrote: > > I also had to boot our server back to the previous kernel, as the latest > > FC2 kernel (2.6.7-1.494.2.2) made samba unusable. Connections could be > > made, but throughput was so low and unreliable that many applications > > were timing out, causing database corruption in our Library software. > > I'm currently using 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 without any problems. The problems > > were with a variety of Win XP, 98 clients. > > Sounds like you've got a buggy firewall/proxy box between you and the clients > that also cannot handle window scaling. If you turn window scaling off as in > the previous discussion does it help ? It sounds more like the known bug in 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 that causes tcp_moderate_rcvbuf to pull in the TCP window to ridiculously small sizes, even with window scaling disabled. Try 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_moderate_rcvbuf', or else try the current testing kernel update for FC2. Tim. */
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