Bug#464145: linux-image-2.6.22-2-686: network performance degrades over time with peer-to-peer file transfer

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:55:17PM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.22-2-686
> Version: 2.6.22-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> Everytime I use a P2P file transfer application, in my case either amule
> or ktorrent, the network bandwidth systematically gets smaller and
> smaller over time.
> 
> After a day using P2P, on FTP servers where I typically have 700kb/s
> transfers, even after stopping all other file transfer network activity,
> I usually get around 100kb/s.
> 
> Stopping and restarting my PPPoE connection usually was not enough to
> get back my full bandwidth, but doing it to the underlying Ethernet
> connection also was.
> 
> Could it be a memory leak or slow data corruption that arise only with
> long-living connections, inside the via_rhine driver (this is my PCI
> card 00:12.0)?

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz