Hi! I hate to answer my own post, but i found something. 1. All machines suffering from the delays of packets smaller than 100 bytes are diskless workstations. 2. I could not reproduce the problem on switched ethernet - it occured only once for an unknown reason. Well, and finally the reason seems to be found - old, good collisions. After each delay the number of collisions reported for the network adapter increases. But then, next question arises - why the delays do not exceed 20 ms on the computers with local disks (and on any machine running under kernel 2.0.39), but are very long (sometimes even 2 seconds) on diskless computers with root directory mounted via nfs, running under 2.2/2.4? Any ideas? Krzysztof Strasburger - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
