Re: 2.3.41 - tcp lo interface very slow

From: Thorsten Kranzkowski (th@Marvin.DL8BCU.ampr.org)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2000 - 09:57:44 EST


On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 11:41:31AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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.

So I'm not the only one having problems with lo ? :-)
I noticed them because fetchmail was unable to deliver my mail.

I just made a test:
1) booted into 2.3.41pre3
2) netstat -s
3) telnet localhost
   ok, I see the login prompt as expected
4) ^D - abort telnet
5) another telnet localhost
   Trying 127.0.0.1...
   ***but nothing else for at least 5 minutes***
6) ^C - abort
7) 2nd netstat -s

> The reason is probably the new user context TCP receive code.
>
> What does netstat -s say after such a session?

I've attached both netstat outputs of my example.
This is an alpha 'Noname' AXPpci33 ev4 system.

Thorsten

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