[eepro100] Re: [NFS] General network slowness on SIS 530 with eepro100

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br> writes:

     > Helle there,

     > I've been, for the past days, setting up a fairly big diskless
     > network based on Linux. I've chosen to use 2.4.19 as the kernel
     > because there were some hardware requirements, and for most of
     > the newer boxes, it runs fine. However, for three of the older
     > boxes, we have had some pretty odd performance and stability
     > issues. This message is about the latest one, which is an ASUS
     > P5S-B (has the infamous SIS 530 chipset) on an intel eepro100
     > card. Details:

Is all this NFS over UDP? If so, numbers should not really have
changed in 2.4.19 ( - yes my patchset changes things, but stock 2.4.19
should not be too different w.r.t 2.4.18)

Are you able to determine where in the 2.4.19-pre series the
performance dies?

Cheers,
  Trond