big IRQ latencies, was: <no subject>

From: joerg.beyer@email.de
Date: Sun Aug 25 2002 - 07:38:59 EST


Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> schrieb am 25.08.02 14:10:12:
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 joerg.beyer@email.de wrote:
...
> That should fix your slowdown during untarring/disk access, as for your
> NIC problem looks like you might be having a receive FIFO overflow, so
> perhaps the card stops processing incoming packets? I have no clue,

maybe this helps: outgoing transfer (from the laptop to some other
machine) is reasonable fast: I could copy gig's of data away, but not
to the machine. I asume sending away makes not so heavy use
of IRQ's, right?

    does this help?
    Joerg

ps: sorry for the missing subjectline

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