Slow transfer rates with FTP and Fish on Intrepid and Hardy

[Hakan Koseoglu]

Hi Nigel,

Nigel Henry said the following on 15/02/10 22:13:

> I ran cat /proc/interrupts, and there's a bunch of stuff on irq 10, where eth0 
> is. See below.  I rebooted, and appended the kernel line with irqpoll. The 
> same stuff is shown on irq 10, but now Gftp gets the directory list in an 
> instant, and ftp transfers are up to speed.
That's good news. I didn't think about interrupts since I rarely have
trouble in that area. My troubles tend to be bad cabling and switches!

> Thanks for the tools you suggested. I'll have to find out why iperf is not 
> working properly.
Actually I can explain that. In haste, I forgot to mention that it is a
client/server application. You need to run a similar command at the other hend.