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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:17:08 +0200
From:      Emil Stoyanov <emosto@web.de>
To:        Radu Adrian Zdrinca <radrian1@gmail.com>,  freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ath0 weak connectivity
Message-ID:  <450EE2A4.4030004@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <c4f2e9090609180603y7a96686fgfb7779ebc3b3c6be@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <c4f2e9090609180603y7a96686fgfb7779ebc3b3c6be@mail.gmail.com>

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Radu Adrian Zdrinca wrote:
> I have had similar problems with the driver. The signal quality in
> Windows is higher. But there are other problems. For example, when I
> start Limewire I have to wait for about 3 minutes before it loads. I
> am sure this is a problem with ath interface.
>
If I recall correctly, Limewire is java-based p2p app and java on Linux 
and FreeBSD requires a bit more resources than on Windows (according to 
SUN's recommendations i read the last time). I guess this is due to 
different strategies for memory management in the implementation of Java 
VM. It depends on what machines you are running java - on slower ones, 
or such with less memory, the time for loading java vm, and the time for 
allocation of memory for bigger apps may vary quite a lot, but 3 minutes 
looks like more problem of slow dns resolving, if many peers are 
connecting to you, etc..

I suppose this is not related to problems with driver, but anything is 
possible, just better testing and more investigations can prove that..

Cheers,
Emil




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