Re: 2.3.41 - tcp lo interface very slow

From: Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2000 - 05:41:31 EST


graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk (Graham Murray) writes:

> On upgrading from 2.3.40 to 2.3.41, the speed of tcp on the loopback
> interface has fallen dramatically. I noticed it particularly when
> connecting to INN on the local system. netstat -to shows a large
> (approx 45k) Send-Q almost continuously after data transfer has
> started and data is only transferring at about 2 or Kbytes/sec.

The reason is probably the new user context TCP receive code.

What does netstat -s say after such a session?

-Andi

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