On 01/20/2015 01:49 PM, Jan Stanstrup wrote:
> Thank you for your answer.
> I have spend some hours now to look into your suggestion but I have
> not been able to find anything on how to set the server side buffer size.
> I found something on tcp buffers that apparently can be changed
> with /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max but I
> have no idea if that is relevant. I tried lowering that by a factor of
> 10 but it made no difference. It even stalled faster it seems (could
> be random. it doesn't stall at the same point every time).
>
> But to me it is a disk read issue. It cannot be right that you cannot
> read a 4GB file on a BBB as was the case with my read test in my first
> post. If that is the case I am very disappointed about the product.
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, 19 January 2015 17:36:33 UTC+1, William Hermans wrote:
>
>     you may want to look into making smaller ( much smaller ) file
>     buffers for the ftp / sftp servers you're using on the beaglebone
>     side. It's been a while, so I could tell you how specifically, but
>     it should be something you can look up with an internet search or two.
>
>     On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:27 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>         Hi.
>
>         I am running ubuntu on BBB and I have an external HDD attached
>         over USB.
>
>         I am having trouble reading large files on the external disks
>         over sftp and ftp. I tried different ftp clients but the
>         result is the same. After reading some of the file, typically
>         a few GB, the cpu uses 100% CPU and the speed drops to
>         practically nothing.
>
>         I believe I have traced the problem to be an issue of reading
>         from the disk. If I make a large file:
>         dd if=/dev/zero of=file.txt count=1024 bs=4000000
>         (which is not a problem apparently)
>
>         and then read it using
>         time sh -c "dd if=file.txt bs=4k"
>         It will in a few minutes jump to use 100% CPU and in many
>         instances crash the ssh session with:
>         "The client has disconnected from the server.  Reason:
>         Message Authentication Code did not verify (packet #222795).
>         Data integrity has been compromised. "
>
>
>         I found some discussion
>         (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=112846&p=4
>         <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=112846&p=4>) of
>         what seems to be a similar issue where they suggest to
>         set /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag to madvise. But
>         I don't know how to try that on the BBB or if it is even relevant.
>
>         Any idea about how to resolve this nasty problem?
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also just so you know that was all found in the ftp sftp man pages..

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