Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:52:20 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: i486 can't keep up with 2.2.12 ? |
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On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> 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?
My old 386 dx/40 could handle alot more than one puny little ppp connection.
Stephen
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