Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:00:58 +0200 | From | Frank v Waveren <> | Subject | Re: i486 can't keep up with 2.2.12 ? |
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On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 08:48:01AM -0400, tenthumbs wrote: > I have an old i486 machine with a not quite so old Cyrix 5x86 cpu and > four IDE drives. (I have unmasked irq's on all drives so that's not an > issue.) Using a 2.2.12 kernel and pppd 2.3.9, there are a fairly large > number of packet errors. With just virtual consoles (no X) and just one > user program (fetchmail) running, ifconfig shows this: > > ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:4301 errors:12 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:12 <--- > TX packets:4213 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen: > > Over a longer period of 64 minutes, ifconfig reported more frame errors > and "netstat -s" showed > > TcpExt: > 105 packets pruned from receive queue because of socket buffer > overrun > > which doesn't seem good. > > > None of this happens with a 2.0.38 kernel and pppd 2.2.0f. > > I can see that this might be due to a change in the disk code or in the > network code or in pppd. Does anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks.
Have you tried setting the config option Cpu can't handle full bandwith?
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Frank v Waveren fvw@var.cx ICQ# 10074100
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