In message <20040201072141.70E12430AB at denx.de> you wrote: > > I am using the Linux On MPC860T as your instructions. Now I want to do a > performance test > of PPC with linux. Our board is FADS and MPC860T. > I use the kernel from denx website(2.4.4). the test > program is iperf. > When I use the iperf on PPC+linux as server, I start the iperf on PC as > client. I choose the options -n 300M -P 120 which mean I want to open 120 > threads each one open a TCP connection and each preparing to send 300MB > data. On PPC+linux I get the following output. > "eth0: Memory squeeze,dropping packet" > "__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/0) > I guess that the data to be processed exceeds the capabilities of PPC+linux.
No, it does not exceed the capabilities of Linux or PowerPC, but that of your specific system. > I wonder whether this could be solved by Linux ??? Add more memory to your system. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- See us @ Embedded World, Nuremberg, Feb 17 - 19, Hall 12.0 Booth 440 Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de Bus error -- driver executed. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
