vhand-2.1.64... problems solved - but not all ;)
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Quoted 3 lines · Eugene Crosser
just to let you know. For me, all 2.1.xx kernels are hanging trying to allocate TCP buffers (I reported this problem), and I tried vhand patch in the hope that it may help, as it deals with memory management.
It's still in beta :)
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Unfortunately, it did not. I got the system hung with the same symptoms in less then 24 hours uptime. Also, perfomance of cpu intensive applications (mpg123) dropped noticably with vhand.
I'm working on that one, and it seems like Joe Fouch has given me the 'golden hint' on what to do. So I implemented his idea and tested... It improved performance in CPU intensive applications, but I/O intensive stuff really suffers.
In vhand-2.1.66 this should be better...
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I have a 120MHz 486dx4 w/16Mb, kernel 2.1.63+vhand-2.1.63.
BTW, Zlatko's patch seemed to cure the hang problem, but after a few days, the system freezed anyway at the same place.
Hmmm, could you give me some more details:
- type of network card
- amount of network-buffers allocated each second (!)
- size of allocated network buffers
- amount of swapping/paging going on
- how was the CPU usage of kswapd/vhand during that time?
thanks and good luck,
Rik.
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