Bug 161428

Summary: extremely slow ethernet network connection
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jean-Luc Fontaine <jfontain>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Jean-Luc Fontaine 2005-06-23 11:48:07 UTC
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Description of problem:
Using an up-to-date FC4 on a laptop, I am witnessing extremely slow network transfers (using either NFS or CIFS). I tried the latest development 2.6.12 kernel as well: same thing.
Using 2.6.7 from a Knoppix CD fixes the problem.
I took iptables down and tried other fixes from bugzilla searches (tcp_* values in /sys) to no avail.
Please let me know what I should do to help debug the problem (I attached dmesg output just in case). Thanks very much.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. transfer a big file over ethernet
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Jean-Luc Fontaine 2005-06-23 11:49:09 UTC
Created attachment 115865 [details]
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Comment 2 Jean-Luc Fontaine 2005-06-23 15:37:05 UTC
Wait a minute: FTP transfers are fast but it is the network mounts that create
the problem... Actually writing to remote share seems fast but reading a 1MB
file into /dev/zero takes about 2 minutes on NFS, 1 minute on CIFS and 0.25
second on SMBFS!
I am baffled. I'll take any suggestions...

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2005-07-15 21:34:48 UTC
[This comment has been added as a mass update for all FC4 kernel bugs.
 If you have migrated this bug from an FC3 bug today, ignore this comment.]

Please retest your problem with todays 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 update.

If your problem involved being unable to boot, or some hardware not being
detected correctly, please make sure your /etc/modprobe.conf is correct *BEFORE*
installing any kernel updates.
If in doubt, you can recreate this file using..

mv /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.bak
mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf.bak
kudzu


Thank you.


Comment 4 Jean-Luc Fontaine 2005-07-21 08:51:46 UTC
Sorry for the delay, I was out of town.
Unfortunately, 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 did not solve the problem.


Comment 5 Jean-Luc Fontaine 2005-08-10 14:18:01 UTC
kernel 2.6.12-1.1456_FC5 solves the problem!

Comment 6 Dave Jones 2005-09-30 06:48:28 UTC
Mass update to all FC4 bugs:

An update has been released (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4) which rebases to a new upstream
kernel (2.6.13.2). As there were ~3500 changes upstream between this and the
previous kernel, it's possible your bug has been fixed already.

Please retest with this update, and update this bug if necessary.

Thanks.


Comment 7 Jean-Luc Fontaine 2005-10-03 11:10:01 UTC
Thank you very much Dave for your help.
Unfortunately, I no longer have access to that laptop.
One can only hope that the bug stayed solved, as with 2.6.12-1.1456_FC5 as I
mentioned.
As far as I am concerned, you may close this bug.