RE: Intel PRO/100 NIC trouble when memory is more than 2GB with R edHat7.1beta

>   I have a Mitsubishi electric manufactured Dual Itanium Box.
> When the total memory size of the system is 2GB(512MB SDRAMx4), 
> the PCI NIC intel PRO/100 card (eepro100) worked perfect with 
> RedHat7.1beta.
> 
>   However, if the memory size is increased to 4GB, then with 
> the RedHat7.1beta the behavior of the network become quite bad.

Yes, upgrade to Red Hat Linux 7.2 for Itanium, and the latest errata kernel
released for that.  A good bit of bounce buffering was reduced which is what
causes this performance degradation.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
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