Regression in device ath between BETA5 and RC1?

[Michael VInce]

Doug Poland wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:03:46PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
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>>In message: <20051020232308.GA77950 at xor.obsecurity.org>
>>            Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> writes:
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>>>On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:46:52PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote:
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>>>>Kris Kennaway wrote:
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>>>>>On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:11:41PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote:
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>>>>>>I was seeing this behavior a lot on 5.2.1, 5.3, and, IIRC, 5.4.
>>>>>>Responsiveness was so poor as to make remote SSH sessions
>>>>>>unusable.  When I installed -CURRENT then RELENG_6, then the NIC
>>>>>>started performing beautifully.  Very stable and consistent.
>>>>>>Now, with yesterday's cvsup'd to RC1, the NIC/driver is
>>>>>>performing poorly again.
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>>>>>Go back to the previous version to verify it's not environmental
>>>>>or some other problem than a regression in FreeBSD.
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>>>>Sure, can you tell me what tag to use in my supfile?  Right now I
>>>>have:
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>>>>  *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6
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>>>Use a date instead of a tag (see the cvsup docs).
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>>*default release=cvs date=2005.10.10.12.23.45
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>>and try to find where, since June, the divergence of performance was.
>>We branched RELENG_6 in June, and there's been much merged from head
>>back into RELENG_6.
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>I've gone back to 2005.10.09.16.14.15, which was the time I installed
>-BETA5.  So far, the connection is more stable and robust:  Here's my
>diagnostics:
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>Fri O
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Strange, maybe its something else, such as power related?
I have a WG511T and am on 6.0RC1 / AMD64 laptop, I haven't noticed any 
problems.
I am using WPA mode via DHCP and have been using my laptop every day for 
the last week and the laptop has been running non-stop.

Mike