Bug#536462: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686: weird
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686
Version: http weirdness
Severity: normal
cat /tmp/reportbug-linux-image-20090710-10929-GjawKA
Subject: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686: packet loss in http traffic
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-24etch2
Severity: normal
I'm seeing lots of what appears to be packet loss in traffic from the site
http://www.cv-it.com, performance inproves if I use kernel 2.6.18.5
but improves further if I use windows XP. upgrading linux to 2.6.26 does not help
noticeably.
(upgrading XP to linux 2.6.26 helps, but not with this :)
On linux I'm using the same versions of libc and telnet binaries. (wget and
normal browsers exhibit this too, but telnet only depends on libc so it was
was chosen the comparison) As far as I can tell the only difference is the kernel.
the server at cv-it.com claims to be Microsoft-IIS/7.0
I have set up 2 vmware machines on a lenny-based host and can do experiments
and comparisons there. (the fact that host is running kernel 2.6.26 does not
seem to effect the VMs)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 depends on:
ii coreutils 6.10-6 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92o tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
-- debconf information:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: true
* linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-6-686: false
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: false
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (700, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 depends on:
ii coreutils 6.10-6 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.93.2 tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.7-pre9-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 suggests:
ii grub 0.97-53 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn linux-doc-2.6.18 <none> (no description available)
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