From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 8 03:21:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA11869 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 03:21:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc-server9 (cc-server9.massey.ac.nz [130.123.128.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA11855 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 03:21:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Uacmebbs@massey.ac.nz) From: Uacmebbs@massey.ac.nz Message-Id: <199806081021.DAA11855@hub.freebsd.org> Received: from massey.ac.nz by cc-server9.massey.ac.nz id <01826-0@cc-server9.massey.ac.nz>; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 22:19:58 +1200 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 22:19:57 +1200 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From outpost.co.nz!crh Mon Jun 8 14:25:02 1998 remote from acme.gen.nz Received: from officedonkey by acme.gen.nz with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0yircL-0028ziC; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 14:25:01 +1200 Message-Id: Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Craig Harding" Organization: Outpost Digital Media Ltd To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 14:08:47 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Problems with ddp_route console messages: a solution. Reply-to: crh@outpost.co.nz Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.52) There has been occasional traffic in recent months about people using appletalk getting lots(!) of console messages of the form "ddp_route: still no valid route to host" or "ddp_route: oops", with responses generally of the form "ignore it, it's not serious". I thought I'd add my experiences here for the interested and for anyone else who encounters this and searches through the mail archives for a solution. We've got a very small network (1 mac, 2 Win95 PCs, one FreeBSD server) and use the FreeBSD box as a general purpose everything (news, mail, dialup internet access etc) server, including fileserving for the Mac and PCs using CAP and Samba. Since recently upgrading from 2.2.2 to 2.2.6 (I usually only manage to install from every second CD set I get) we started having problems with file transfers to/from the Mac becoming very slow. Like, taking an hour(!) for a 3MB graphics file. Upon eventually discovering the ddp_route error messages on the console, I searched the mail archives with little success (and my knowledge of Appletalk networking grew from zero to a little bit) until finding a note in bugs that someone had very recently commented out these error messages in stable I did the same thing to my kernel and immediately saw a dramatic improvement in throughput (that 3MB file save operation went back down to a normal 30sec). Anyway, just thought I'd note that here in the hope that others having a similar problem will find this message useful, and to note the impact of seemingly innocent kernel printf statements on a less than state of the art machine (P75, only 16MB of RAM, doing way too many things at once). -- C. -- Craig Harding Head of Postproduction, Outpost Digital Media Ltd "I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message