On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:48:59PM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> Machine: HP Vectra PPro 200MHz dual-proc board with 1 CPU Kernel:
> 2.2.18 uniprocessor Ethernet: Netgear FA311 100BaseT
> Netgear-supplied driver SCSI: Adaptec AIC-7880U on-board aic7xxx
> driver DISK: Seagate ST32171N
> However, while writing to the disk, NFS throughput drops
> to about 0.5MB/s and I get "server timed out" & "server OK"
> messages a lot. Sometimes NFS practically halts. (Note
I have had almost identical issues on a machine running a
Netgear FA311 adapter with no SCSI, just IDE. I swapped out
the NIC for an eepro100 and they went away entirely.
In short, I highly recommend a new NIC. Either the drivers
(I have tried both the netegar one and the one in 2.4.x)
don't work properly or the hardware doesn't.
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