[plug] CPU usage with PPP

[Bernd Felsche]

Michael Collard <quadfour at iinet.net.au> writes:

>On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 18:34 +0800, Michael Collard wrote:
>> I've got my own little gateway/server that handles my pppoe connection
>> and provides a number of services. Its a celly 633 with 256Mb RAM. 

>> I go to use VoIP today and notice that the quality is crap, to
>> the point its dropping out. Hmm, thats odd, that never happens. I
>> start some basic troubleshooting. I notice in my log that my
>> server's NIC is having timeouts with the following showing up:

>Just a FYI for anyone else with this problem, its apparently a kernel
>bug with the 8139too module and interrupts (not pppoe at all). It is
>fixed in > 2.6.13 apparently.

<light bulb comes on above head>

Thanks for that. I'm running 2.6.13-15 (SuSE 10.0) on a 200MHz PII
and it's struggling at 14 Mbps... so the it may not be all fixed.
I'll try swapping interfaces - there's an EPro100 chumpset on the
same machine to see it the problem persists.
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