Re: Re: Re: Question: Rx Ring Buffers in the rtl8139 module
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.realtek.devel |
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 [email protected] wrote: > 8139too gives in the order of 10.000 errors per sec under load, while > rtl8139 is better and has (only) a few 100 errors per sec. > > Is there anything I can do about that? Turn on flow control, if you have a flow control switch. Tune the PCI parameters. > Any debugging I can do? What are the errors? Dropped packets? Or CRC errors? > It's an onboard NIC on a laptop. Which might have a very slow PCI system or processor.. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993