Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:25:25 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | 2.3.11-pre7 is much better than 2.2.5smp-rh6 |
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Hello,
Very quick subjective and vague observation that after I have just upgraded a machine from 2.2.5 (rh6 default) to properly configured 2.3.11-pre7 a number of problems disappeared and the system generally feels ok:
a) I used to have lots of collisions on some of the interfaces (I have 7 of them, 4 tulip + 1 tlan + 1 3c509 + plip) so 100Mbit ethernet felt like plip = 40-50K/s.
b) a simple command dd of=/dev/ida/c0d0p4 if=c0d0p4.uw710 bs=4k used to cause "Out of memory for dd" and generally system "smelled bad" - I think it should be attributed to ida driver - the obvious difference I noticed is that it now uses irqs routed properly by PCI/MP subsystem rather than XT-PIC ones. So now, not only it works but it is very fast too. (Btw, Red Hat users who use Compaq SMART-2 cards - please do upgrade their kernels for cpqarray driver is really much better now).
c) many other things which are probably related to the network collisions in a) but caused me lots of annoyance.
Regards, ------ Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796 Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.aivazian.demon.co.uk
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