Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:16:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from cheetah.davemloft.net (mail@dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.27.180.174]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2EKGV0d011966 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:16:31 -0800 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=cheetah.davemloft.net ident=davem) by cheetah.davemloft.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DAvy1-0002gZ-00; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:15:09 -0800 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:15:09 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: bernd.schubert@pci.uni-heidelberg.de, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: network speed extremly slowed down Message-Id: <20050314121509.70dcd129.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20050314115757.789a82d4@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> References: <200503141745.08032.bernd.schubert@pci.uni-heidelberg.de> <20050314115757.789a82d4@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.83/762/Sun Mar 13 15:35:33 2005 on oss.sgi.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-archive-position: 102 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: davem@davemloft.net Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev Content-Length: 296 Lines: 9 On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:57:57 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Are there any errors reported? Cpu time sees high perhaps the console log > is filling with messages or something. Or he has CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled in his kernel config. So many people do this unknowingly.