Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:06:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | Re: ppp |
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should I still use irqtune even with the irq changes? I am using 2.0.21
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Russell Berry wrote:
> Maybe I'm grasping for straw here, is there _anybody_ out there that can > give me a definitive answer as to why ppp performance degrades steadily? > > I can initiate a ppp session with my isp, things are great, everything is > fine. After a half hour or so, the performance begins to decline, it only > gets worse and worse, until after several hours it becomes completely annoying > and I shut it down and restart a new session, which will be fine, but seems to > degrade quicker than the first. The third session degrades quicker than the > second, etc. Until I reboot the system and start all over. > > ppp was good in 2.0.14, especially with irqtune. But ftape was broken, then > around 18 ftape was fixed and the memory eater went away, but irq.h changed and > ppp sucked. So 2.0.18 with the irq.h patched from 14 was a nice combination for > me. I've since moved up, 19, 20, 21. The ppp seems to be getting worse, again. > especially in the transition from 20 to 21, I mean really bad. I still can't > build my sound as module either. > > Oh well, I suppose I'll stick with 20. I just fear that with the advent of 2.1 > we won't be getting any more fixes in 2.0. > > > ---russ >
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