RTL8139 problems with 2.2.17

Hello, I've seen some problem reports on this board, but I just had something I've seen to be reported for some tulip board - the board just freezes and stops receiving ( or transmiting? ) packets. Running tcpdump makes her run again. The machine has 2 RTL8139 boards and one 8029 , all on differ

PLIP driver in 2.2.xx kernels

I have a question - Why does the PLIP driver does consume so much CPU ? I tried it today, and when i did ping -s 16000 dst_ip, the kernel consumed about 50% of the CPU time ( /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/interrupts follow). Any ideas ? shtajga:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id

Re: PLIP driver in 2.2.xx kernels

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I have a question - Why does the PLIP driver does consume so much CPU ? > > I tried it today, and when i did ping -s 16000 dst_ip, the kernel consumed > > about 50% of the CPU time ( /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/interrupts follow). > > Any ideas ? > > It h