Messages in this thread |  | | From | Samium Gromoff <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.12-ac4 10Mbit NE2k interrupt load kills p166 | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2001 06:57:42 +0400 (MSD) |
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" Urban Widmark wrote:" > > Hello folks... > > > > Host A: p166, ISA NE2K, linux-2.4.12-ac4 > > Host B: p2-400, rtl-8129, WinXP (heh, not my box though ;) > > > > Load: smbmount connection from host A to the host B, and getting > > large files. > > You don't say if any of the tests you did are related to smbfs. I suspect > this reasoning is completely irrelevant (not, that it has stopped me > before ... :) > > smbfs is not the fastest thing around. I think the slowness on some > operations is related to how it waits after sending each request. > > process A process B > get semaphore > request 4096 bytes wait on semaphore > ... wait for network ... > read packet > read packet > read packet > release semaphore > get semaphore > request 4096 bytes > > It could send the second request without waiting for the first to complete > (if it knew how to separate the responses). Doing that should speed things > up. > > If you play mp3's over smbfs while also doing something else I suppose the > delay could become noticable. I can't explain the other effects, so > possibly this is unrelated to smbfs. > > You could make me happy by repeating the tests, but generating the network > load with something else (http?). > > /Urban > > > 1. /dev/hda is -u1d1 `ed, and the disc load is near to not existent 2. mp3 is placed locally
cheers, Samium Gromoff
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