Re: Gigaswift adapter in an old e250

On Apr 9, 7:18 pm, Mark Valery <meval...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I believe I tracked it down to thegigaswiftboard being too fast for
the 2 400MHz CPUs.
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What happens is that during an iperf test, or multiple users doing a large
cvs checkout, or multiple users doing a build, or any single large(>500MB)
file transfer, the machine goes from 50% to 70% kernel.

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Any ideas on how I can get this to work?

Maybe http://freshmeat.net/projects/slowdown/ will help?

"slowdown is a program that contends with I/O-hungry processes. The
"nice" program does a good job of handling CPU priorities, but doesn't
help much when you have a process that is moving tons of data; other
processes can continue to starve for I/O, making a system painful to
use, as during a backup, while tripwire is running, etc. slowdown
manages another process by sleeping for a user-specified number of
seconds or fractions of seconds, each time some data is moved using,
for example, read(), write(), send(), recv(), etc."

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