Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:25:41 -0800 (PST) | From | David Ford <> | Subject | Re: Alpha Tulip performance |
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On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Wai-Sun Chia wrote: > My problem is that for the Alpha squids, ping time on the local subnet > increases with time. i.e. network throughput slowly but surely > decreases; from a ping RTT of 3ms to 3000ms from another PC on the same > subnet. This 1000 fold degradation typically takes from a couple of > hours to maybe a day depends on traffic. After which the alpha boxes are > totally inaccessible either via ftp or telnet. This sucks because one of > them is my main ftp server!
I have seen this problem on ix86, it and other tulip issues were solved for me by upgrading to the latest tulip driver; currently v.90q iirc.
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