Subject: Re: PCMCIA ne buffer overruns.
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Chris Pinnock <cjep@fawlty.net>
List: current-users
Date: 04/10/2001 21:31:57
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:09:43PM +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> The poor card does not seem to be able to keep up with the traffic.
> For NFS, you can alleviate the problem by reducing the read (and
> possibly write) size, using the -r and -w options to mount_nfs.
> Or compile NFS_WSIZE and NFS_RSIZE as option in your kernel.
Thanks, will have a stab at this.
> However, for normal traffic, there isn't that much you can do,
> except perhaps improve the driver.
For "normal traffic", e.g. scp'ing a file, ssh'ing into a machine
and using a shell or X tunneling, or ftp'ing stuff, the card is
fine. I guess it depends what one means by normal...
all the best,
--
Chris