Re: linux >= 2.6.18 kernel with aranym ethernet support?
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 07:40:42PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:33:31PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > Unfortunately network performance are not good compared to 2.4.27.
> > > It seems that the kernel stays idle instead of processing packets.
> >
> > You mean it's dropping packets outright? Do you get retransmits on the
> > host side?
>
> No, I mean it looks like aranym is sleeping.
> I do
> a) wget pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/pari.tgz 2>&1 | tee log
> b) wget pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/pari.tgz
> c) wget -q pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/pari.tgz
>
> a) is much faster than b) and c) but still twice slower that with linux-2.4.27,
> so it seems printing stuff actually make the network faster. Typing
> stuff on the keyboard also make b) and c) faster.
I forgot to say it: I am connected through telnet, so console I/O
are also network I/O.
> linux-2.4.27 had a similar problem, so I run 'ping aranym' from the host
> and this help a lot (the ping packet seems to waken the network).
That is why I used ping to simulate them.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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