On Tuesday 20 September 2005 6:11 pm, Graeme Wilford wrote: > I started noticing dropped packets on the RTL8139 eth device I have in > the same box as my PVR350 a few weeks ago (Shuttle ZEN, w/ 2.53GHz > Celeron D). I don't know if it was happening pre 0.3.8 but it's likely > it's been happening for a while. > > I just switched the RTL driver from using PIO to MMIO (the default is > PIO in FC3 kernel) to see if it made any difference - but no. Still > dropping packets. I also tried preempt - but again, dropped packets. > This box is only running MythTV with a hauppauge PVR350 and serial IR > blaster. I have no usb or firewire devices attached: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/interrupts > CPU0 > 0: 2050381 IO-APIC-edge timer > 1: 12 IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc > 12: 113 IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 14: 6589 IO-APIC-edge ide0 > 15: 35787 IO-APIC-edge ide1 > 169: 1 IO-APIC-level acpi > 177: 987425 IO-APIC-level eth0, ATI IXP > 193: 616179 IO-APIC-level ivtv0, ehci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2, > ohci_hcd:usb3 > 201: 2 IO-APIC-level ohci1394 > NMI: 0 > LOC: 2050485 > ERR: 0 > MIS: 0 > > I haven't seen ethernet device overruns in Linux for at least a decade... > > My video filestore is via NFS over 100mbit wired link. > Is the ivtv driver disabling interrupts for too long a period?
I'm running SVN 2660 and I'm not seeing any underruns or dropped packets. I mount my filestore over 100BaseTX NFS too. Perhaps your NIC is going bad? Replace it? -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
