Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 09:12 am, Basil Chupin wrote:
I have been having a similar problem but may have found the problem.
I am running 9.0 but I *was* running with kernel 2.6.6. I also was having thruput problems on a normal 56k dialup modem. Things wouldn't stop completely, but the throughput was almost non-existant... really poor.
I was yelling at my ISP (and fortunately I have a good relationship with them) and they were testing dialup response and not finding any problems... and also said that I was the only one complaining. (and I believe them).
I tried different phone numbers, and a different (but the same type) modem (USR V-everything) but nothing really changed. At one point I dialed into another ISP and things got really good for awhile, but then slowed down again. (sound familiar?)
At that point, I switched back to a 2.4.25 kernel and things have been a lot different since. Pretty good thruput. So I am thinking there are problems in the 2.6.6 kernel somewhere. NOTE: Both of these kernels are stock, vanilla kernels from kernel.org so SuSE has nothing to do with them.
Not sure how to shoot this kind of problem but I think there definitely is a problem.
Thanks for confirming what I have exprienced (very, very close to being the same as you). See my message I sent yesterday with the Subject of SUSE 5.1 - BAH!
Basil:
Can you tell me what kernel you are running (with 9.1) and then check in /boot and see if CONFIG_PREEMPT is set.
I have recompiled 2.6.6 with preempt turned off and it seems (after just a few minutes) to have solved my problem with slow modem thruput. It would seem that it could also solve your problem.
See the repsonse from C Hamel (who is the pot stirrer on this one :-) ). We are both running the stock standard 9.1 kernel (2.6.4-5). Cheers. -- I am not young enough to know everything.