big IRQ latencies, was: <no subject>

Zwane Mwaikambo <[e-mail]> schrieb am 25.08.02 14:10:12:
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 [e-mail] wrote:
...
> That should fix your slowdown during untarring/disk access, as for your 
> NIC problem looks like you might be having a receive FIFO overflow, so 
> perhaps the card stops processing incoming packets? I have no clue, 

maybe this helps: outgoing transfer (from the laptop to some other
machine) is reasonable fast: I could copy gig's of data away, but not
to the machine. I asume sending away makes not so heavy use
of IRQ's, right?

    does this help?
    Joerg

ps: sorry for the missing subjectline