[ltp] T60 and Network

[Brad Langhorst]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 11:33 +0200, Thomas Finneid wrote:

> By accident I noticed that if the hardisk is doing some working, as in 
> full throttle work, the ping response times drops to the normal 20-40 
> ms, as soon as the harddisk stops doing any work I experience the 
> network jitter again. I dont know if its the fact that the disk is 
> working or if its because of the processor having higher load (havent 
> found a suitable cpu test to confirm/contradict that last part yet) It 
> might also be because of some device io, or a timerinterrupt which is 
> disabled during device io.

maybe it's a C state problem?
i've seen some network drivers be unable to deal the cpu slowing down.

brad