Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

[Jan Kasprzak <kas@informatics.muni.cz>]

Alan Cox wrote:
: > : but once a fixed BIOS is out for your board that would be a good first step.
: > : If it still does it then, its worth digging for kernel naughties
: > : 
: > 	I don't think I have 686b southbridge. I have 686 (without "b"):
: 
: Ok. What revision of 3c90x card do you have ?
: 
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
3c59x.c:LK1.1.13 27 Jan 2001  Donald Becker and others. http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xa000,  00:50:da:06:95:21, IRQ 11
  product code 5957 rev 00.13 date 07-17-99
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
eth0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled

	Some more progress: I now downgraded to proftpd without sendfile().
The CPU usage is now nearly 100% (with ~170 FTP users; with sendfile()
it was under 50% with >320 FTP users). But nevertheless, the downloaded
images now seem to be OK.

	Should I try the stock 2.4.3 without zero-copy patches?

-Yenya

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