I've a Netgear DG834G router - and I connect two machines to it using
Ethernet... one Gentoo; one Windows... it works reasonably well...
I hit a snag when downloading a large file from Gentoo - for example a
multi-meg portage archive. At such times, the Windows PC seems to be
given a rather
Norberto Bensa wrote:
Ah!! But Windows (XP) uses TC by default. It doesn't use 20% of the
network bandwidth unless you tweak some registry setting and/or
disable QoS in network properties.
That sounds like a fine plan for me... but, erm, how does it know? Both
Linux and Xp talk to my router at
Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:53:23 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote
Ah!! But Windows (XP) uses TC by default. It doesn't use 20% of the
network bandwidth unless you tweak some registry setting and/or disable
QoS in network properties.
This is not the case. Please read:
Norberto Bensa wrote:
Nope. fixed rate limiting is not the answer. You need QoS at the
router level, but if it doesn't support it, you'll need to change how
your Linux box talks and listen to internet packages. That's what I
said -more or less- on my first reply.
I'm a believer in doing things
Mick wrote:
I think that the problem is associated with the way that the Linux box treats
bind requests. Other than QoS which will try to allocate some bandwidth to
bind packets, or nice which will elevate bind's processes - you may want to
check your kernel's IO scheduler and set it to
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Maybe I should upgrade to the latest kernel (I'm reluctant to do this
in a hurry - since I've lost my notes on which kernel options I'd
activated
Copy the current config over and run make oldconfig. There's no need to
take notes when the system keeps track for you
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
That reminds me of the time I carefully backup up everything from
partition A to partition B, and verified it, before reformatting
partition B instead of A.
You've quite a way to go to get my experience. In my 10GB was about
50mb of only-copy ASCII - the air turned blue
I'm considering a project, and am keen not to end up re-inventing the wheel.
I'm looking to use collaborative techniques to put together a 'knowledge
base'... I require:
* Collaborative editing to grow the number of 'records' held.
* For the 'records' (pages) to be of a standard form - so that
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