Messages in this thread | | | From | WaiSun Chia <> | Subject | RE: Alpha Tulip performance | Date | Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:48:33 +0800 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: David Ford [mailto:david@killerlabs.com] > Sent: Sunday, February 28, 1999 1:26 AM > To: Wai-Sun Chia > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: Alpha Tulip performance > > > 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.
Nope. v.90q didn't work for me....it lasts longer but now the degradation takes a couple of days!1 I switched to the de4x5 driver, and everything was OK again!!! Very strange...
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