Re: major network performance difference between 2.4 and 2.6.2-rc2

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Jim Faulkner <jfaulkne@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> 
> I am still experiencing severely degraded network performance under
> 2.6.2-rc3 and 2.6.2-rc3-mm1.

A kernel profile is needed.

>  Based on some kernel output, I think this
> problem may be related to Gerd Knorr's input patches, so I am CCing him on
> this e-mail.

Sounds unlikely.

> Additionally, while large network transfers are going on, both ksoftirqd/0
> and events/0 start going crazy, putting a huge load on my system:
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>   3 root      35  19     0    0    0 S 45.9  0.0   0:46.98 ksoftirqd/0
>   6 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S 43.3  0.0   1:56.63 events/0
>   12008 dogshu 15   0  4800 2356 3828 S  5.3  0.2   0:05.98 proftpd
>   12 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.41 pdflush
>   9778 root    16   0  5888 1724 5516 R  0.3  0.2   0:00.12 sshd
> 
> the load before that network transfer was 0.01, and the load after the
> network transfer was 1.45.

Could be a networking problem, but boy that's a lot of CPU time.


Please, do this:

- Boot with `profile=1' on the kernel command line

sudo readprofile -r
sudo readprofile -M10
time <whatever command it is that is causing the problem>
readprofile -n -v -m /boot/System.map | sort -n +2 | tail -40 | tee ~/log

Making very sure that /boot/System.map is the correct map file for the
currently-running kernel.

Thanks.