On Wed, 2 May 2001, Austad, Jay wrote:

> I have tried 3 different ethernet cards, a tulip, an eepro100, and a 3c59x.
> I cannot get more than about 11Mb/sec out of them.  At 11Mb/sec,

11 Mb/s is ok for 100 Mbit network, if you account for:
	- network overhead
	- kernel overhead
	- disk overhead

> /var/log/syslog fills with this:
> May  2 17:51:57 i5 kernel: Undo loss 10.10.220.101/3419 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0
> May  2 17:52:00 i5 kernel: Undo loss 10.10.220.101/2634 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0
> May  2 17:52:00 i5 kernel: Undo loss 10.10.220.101/3228 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0
> May  2 17:52:06 i5 kernel: Undo loss 10.10.220.101/4646 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0
> May  2 17:52:06 i5 kernel: Undo loss 10.10.220.101/4647 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0
> May  2 17:52:09 i5 kernel: Undo loss 10.10.220.101/4222 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0
> May  2 17:52:09 i5 kernel: Undo loss 10.10.220.101/4524 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0
> May  2 17:52:14 i5 kernel: Undo loss 10.10.220.101/4520 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0

What version of 2.4?

> 10.10.220.101 is the machine I'm testing from.  The message appears from any
> machine I'm testing on.  All machines are plugged into the same switch, and
> forced to 100/full.  I have no problems with my 2.2 kernels, only the 2.4
> kernels.  Does anyone have any ideas?
>

florin