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Re: ppp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jauder Ho)
Fri Sep 27 08:02:26 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:06:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jauder Ho <jauderho@netcom.com>
To: Russell Berry <rberry@albany.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu,
torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi
In-Reply-To: <3249E60E.509200A9@albany.net>
should I still use irqtune even with the irq changes? I am using 2.0.21
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Russell Berry wrote:
> Maybe I'm grasping for straw here, is there _anybody_ out there that can
> give me a definitive answer as to why ppp performance degrades steadily?
>
> I can initiate a ppp session with my isp, things are great, everything is
> fine. After a half hour or so, the performance begins to decline, it only
> gets worse and worse, until after several hours it becomes completely annoying
> and I shut it down and restart a new session, which will be fine, but seems to
> degrade quicker than the first. The third session degrades quicker than the
> second, etc. Until I reboot the system and start all over.
>
> ppp was good in 2.0.14, especially with irqtune. But ftape was broken, then
> around 18 ftape was fixed and the memory eater went away, but irq.h changed and
> ppp sucked. So 2.0.18 with the irq.h patched from 14 was a nice combination for
> me. I've since moved up, 19, 20, 21. The ppp seems to be getting worse, again.
> especially in the transition from 20 to 21, I mean really bad. I still can't
> build my sound as module either.
>
> Oh well, I suppose I'll stick with 20. I just fear that with the advent of 2.1
> we won't be getting any more fixes in 2.0.
>
>
> ---russ
>
