Hi Seth,
On 21.11.2012 15:35, Seth Forshee wrote:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:56:47AM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote:
On 21.11.2012 10:44, Arend van Spriel wrote:
On 11/20/2012 11:45 PM, Daniel Wagner wrote:
I am currently not able to reproduce a complete loss of connectivity.
I fear it is a heisenbug. After turning the tracing off I was able to
reproduce it very easily.
Just to clarify, you see the issue using the same kernel but without
trace-cmd running?
Yes, exactly.
If so you might try disabling the brcmsmac_tx
tracepoing, which probably adds the most overhead, and see if you can
reproduce the problem. It obviously won't give as much information but
maybe it will still provide some clues.
Will do. To clarify what I mean with 'connectivity' loss, is that
ConnMan/wpa_s still think everything is fine but nothing works anymore.
So it could be a combination of issues which sums up to this behavior.
I'll spend some more time to gather better information.
That is too bad. I always wondered about the tracing overhead affecting
reproducibility. So the trace that you uploaded was not showing the
issue of connection loss you are having?
The trace does only show that the throughput goes considerable down and the
download might even stop shortly but overall the system recovers again.
Well, to add some random observation here, I think I see the same pattern
when using MacOS (yeah, sorry, dual boot). With MacOS the link is usable but
the throughput sometimes really goes down and recovers then. Obviously, this
could also be something else, I tried it with an pretty old AP which only
support 11g. Using the 11g AP didn't show this behavior.
My 'test' setup is following: I downloaded a larger file and let a youtube
video play. With tracing enabled the download and the playback did work nicely.
Without tracing enabled playing back only a youtube video was 'triggering'
the problem. It downloads a few seconds of content in a burst and then the playback
starts. Under normal conditions, the app will continue downloading the video at a
lower rate. But this normally doesn't happen right now. Often it will just stop
working and often the connection is completely blocked, e.g. pinging a host
wont work.
I'll see if I can reproduce, but if it's specific to the AP then I may
not have any luck. Don't expect to hear much from me until next week
though; I'm on holiday starting today and will be visiting family.
Enjoy!
cheers,
daniel
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