On 12/21/19 3:29 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote:
Anybody else seeing periodic "stalls" in networking with 5.4 kernels and the r8169 driver ? My current feeling is that a lot of network and other changes got into 5.4 because it is the next LTS kernel, and on r8169 (which apparently has a bad reputation for some people) some variants might be be very iffy (although fine in 5.2 and earlier 5.3.stable).
I can't really say anything about the 5.2 or 5.4 kernels. I'm still on lfs-9.0 on my development system. However, I've always had some speed issues with nfs. If I try to do a tar -xf on the nfs mount, it is very slow. If I try to do an rm -r on a moderate sized directory tree, it is very slow.
What I do is extract the tarball from the nfs location to a local disk and that is quite fast. Writing to a log file on the nfs directory or running a script located there seems to run at an appropriate speed.
My thought is that doing a lot of disk operations is slow, but open-read/write-close on a few files like a script or log or tarball works at relatively full speed.
-- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
