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Re: r8169: page allocation failure

To: Jan Killius <jkillius@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: r8169: page allocation failure
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:49:03 +0200
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Jan Killius <jkillius@xxxxxxxx> :
> On Saturday 16 October 2004 23:04, Jan Killius wrote:
> > > - what is the current transfer rate and is it better/worse w/o TSO ?
> >
> > I'm getting almost the same with both settings ~405Mbit/s.

Roughly the same CPU usage ?

> >
> > > - which cpu/disk system are there within the (?) 128Mo box ?
> >
> > Athlon XP 1600+ the disk is a Maxtor 6Y060L0 gets with hdparm 42.76 MB/s
> ups forget to say the ram size 512MB FSB333 DDR RAM

I did not notice it first but the bi/bo columns of the vmstat output
are mostly null. Assuming this is a single session ftp transfer, what ftp
software does the r8169 based system run ?

Pure curiosity: can you issue a test+vmstat with a blowfish scp to see if
TSO makes a difference for your setup when the system is not disk-limited ?

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