Re: PPP Slowdown

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:55:02 +0000 (GMT)

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> I second the fact that PPP seems to be slowed down in 1.3.73+ .. as my
> ping replies have gone from 190ms to 260ms reply times.. It is not the
> fault of the providor, nor is it the fault of the pinged machine... The
> only thing it could be is linux. Under windows 95, I get 190ms ping time
> flawlessly... Maybe it interrupt latency that increased??

The interrupt latency has gone through the roof in 1.3.7x kernels, I'm
losing characters at 57,600 on a 486 that with 1.3.32 is 100% solid with
hdparm -u 1 set.

Alan

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