On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:10:12 -0500, Bill Fink <billfink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > I'm catching up on way backlogged old e-mail, so perhaps (and > hopefully) you have already resolved this (although I didn't see any > replies on the list). Recent kernel perform better: 2.6.11 has the same problem, in 2.6.12 things are significantly better, in 2.6.13 and later it has disappeared entirely. But we still haven't pinpointed the specific issue. > I don't know if it's the same problem, but I have seen performance > on a 2.6.9 kernel with the e1000 driver occasionally go out to lunch > (about 6 times out of 1000). In my case, it appears to be a problem > with TSO being enabled as disabling TSO made the problem go away. > If the driver you are using supports TSO and has it enabled (check > with "ethtool -k ethX"), then you could try disabling TSO with: > ethtool -K ethX tso off Thanks! I'll give that a try. David Carlton david.carlton@xxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
