Re: kernel 2.4.2 network performances

From: Bernd Eckenfels (W1012@lina.inka.de)
Date: Fri Mar 16 2001 - 18:24:32 EST


In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103151540240.856-100000@nalle.netsonic.fi> you wrote:
> Yesterday I discovered that the load I can throw out to network seems to
> depend on other activities running on machine. I was able to get
> throughput of 33M/s with ATM when machine was idle, while I compiled
> kernel at same time, the throughput was 135M/s.

- which protocol/application you have used for this
- how do you have measured throughput (try wristwatch!)

I could think that applications can profit from increased context switches
count, especially if there is a handshake network protocol going on. But it
could also be some hardware problems.

Greetings
Bernd
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