Hi Oleg,
I don't have any network card errors in the output of ifconfig. The only
suspicious thing is the error message from samba, which is included in my
original posting.
Unfortunately, I cant't easily test undertake various test series, because
this is a production system and we have mostly converted our reiser
partitions to ext3 for stability reasons. Now, that you encourage me, I
will try to convince the people here to start 2.4.18 and I could have
another try with a large file over knfsd. Switching to a 100MBit/s card is
even harder, because we have to physically rearrange our network, so no
chance for that at the moment...
Concerning samba using kernel oplock, I just looked into the samba sources
and found, that samba uses
fcntl(fd, F_SETLEASE, leasetype)
to set locks on files, which they call 'kernel oplocks', so maybe this
explains more to you, why samba and knfsd show a similar behaviour.
So hopefully I can come up to you with a 2.4.18 benchmark tomorrow.
Regards,
Wolfgang
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