linux-kernel - Re: netatalk slow after system upgrade (possibly kernel problem?)

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Message-Id: <20080126220051.d753266b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:00:51 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@...management.at>
Cc:	netatalk-admins@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netatalk slow after system upgrade (possibly kernel problem?)


(cc netdev)

> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:55:42 +0100 Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@...management.at> wrote:
> Dear lists,
> 
> I've been spending a LOT of time trying to find out where's the problem, 
> but can't find it and therefore seek urgent help now. We have the 
> following system:
> 
> Server with VMware server
> -> VM running a webserver and netatalk
> -> 2 other VMs not related
> 
> The VM with netatalk was SUSE 10.0 with kernel 2.6.13-15.15-smp (from 
> SUSE), and things were pretty fun and quick. Then we upgraded to SUSE 
> 10.2 and now 10.3, where everything EXCEPT netatalk runs perfect. Since 
> this upgrade, Apple clients (MacOS X) now do READ very very slowly 
> (about 512KB/s over the gigabit LAN), while writing to the server still 
> is normal (>20MB/s). I've even retried with the newest kernel 
> 2.6.23.13, tried different /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_congestion_control 
> (cubic, reno, bic, etc.) and nothing helps. I've then tried to install 
> Samba and found that we have similar problems reading with it from 
> MacOS clients. Now I'm pretty sure it should be something with the 
> linux kernel, but I don't understand what.
> 
> Here are the wireshark dumps in pcap format:
> http://zmi.at/x/atalk-write-fast.pcap
> -> you can see writing to the server (192.168.120.9) is normal and fast
> 
> http://zmi.at/x/atalk-read-slow.pcap
> -> reading is horribly slow. Lots of "unknown", because of netatalk or 
> what?
> 
> http://zmi.at/x/unknown-atalk.pcap
> -> another dump while reading, you see "unknown" reads. I'm not sure if 
> it's just wireshark not understanding the packets or netatalk.
> 
> And trying with samba:
> http://zmi.at/x/smb-read-slow.pcap
> http://zmi.at/x/smb-write-quick.pcap
> you can see that it's also slow.
> 
> Now why did it work with the old 2.6.13 kernel? I still have that old 
> VM, and when I start it, it is always perfectly fast. Only newer 
> versions are slow. Can somebody give me a hint please?

It would be interesting if this could be repeated on bare hardware, so we
can eliminate the possibility that it is some weird interaction with vmware.

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