Re: Acer Aspire 1524WLMi and RealTek 8169 - very slow

[Richard Dawe <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.

Francois Romieu wrote:
> Richard Dawe <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> [...]
>
> > I find that the "ip link set dev eth0 down" command hangs, consuming 
> > most of the CPU time (~99%). Note that I issued the "network" commands 
> > with about a second's delay between each command.
>
> @#$*%!
>
> Patch against 2.6.11-rc3:
> http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20050211-2.6.11-rc3-r8169-test.patch
>
> Better ?
[snip]

Much better! That withstands:

  while true; /etc/init.d/network restart; done

with both DHCP and statically-assigned IP addresses. I haven't seen any 
hangs.
Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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