[ath][CURRENT] Triangle-shaped network performance

Lytochkin Boris lytboris at gmail.com
Sun Mar 25 19:51:43 UTC 2012


On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, you changed both the OS _and_ the NIC. How are we supposed to
> debug this? :-)
Let's forget about past :) I would have to change my OS back unless
this madness is fixed :(

>
>>  Some more facts: ping triangles for two laptops connected to server
>>  are not synchronized and roll-over independently.
>
> I still don't know what's causing this. Try running athstats a little
> more and try to correlate changes in latency with changes in the
> output of athstats.
Here it is.

Transfer initiation (you can see when it boosts):
>athstats 1
   input   output altrate   short    long xretry crcerr crypt  phyerr rssi  rate
  608153  1085770      74       0   30727   2591   2749     0       0   62 MCS11
       4        3       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   62 MCS11
       7        4       0       0       0      0      0     0       0
 62 MCS11 <--- transfer initiated
       4        5       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   61 MCS11
       4        4       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   62 MCS11
       7        8       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   59 MCS15
       9        8       0       0      14      3      0     0       0   54   48M
       6        6       0       0       4      1      0     0       0   57   36M
      21       17       0       0      78     15      0     0       0   54 MCS11
       8        6       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   55   36M
      10        6       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   50   36M
      12        8       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   59   36M
      10       13       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   58   36M
       7        8       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   60   36M
       6        6       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   61   36M
       5        5       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   61   36M
       6        8       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   61   36M
       8        7       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   59   54M
      12       28       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   61   36M
      26       31       0       0       5      0      0     0       0   57   36M
       6       10       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   59   36M
   input   output altrate   short    long xretry crcerr crypt  phyerr rssi  rate
  608336  1085966      74       0   30831   2610   2749     0       0   60   36M
       6        6       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   65   36M
      22       53       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   61   36M
      28       48       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   61   36M
      28       48       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   59   12M
      28       49       0       0       8      0      0     0       0   59 MCS12
      30       49       0       0       2      0      0     0       0   62 MCS12
      29       49       0       0       5      0      0     0       0   59 MCS12
      24       39       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   60 MCS12
      33       45       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   58 MCS12
      31       52       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   59 MCS11
      32       52       0       0       2      0      0     0       0   66 MCS11
      28       51       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   59 MCS11
      29       50       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   60 MCS12
      28       53       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   57 MCS11
      28       50       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   60 MCS12
      37       56       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   58 MCS11
      36       50       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   63 MCS11
      31       55       0       0       2      0      0     0       0   65 MCS11
      31       54       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   62 MCS12
      35       51       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   60 MCS12
   input   output altrate   short    long xretry crcerr crypt  phyerr rssi  rate
  608941  1086977      74       0   30875   2610   2749     0       0   59 MCS11
      29       52       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   62 MCS12
      28       50       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   61 MCS12
      28       50       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   62 MCS11
      32       58       0       0       7      0      0     0       0   57 MCS12
      40       55       0       0       2      0      0     0       0   62 MCS12
      30       56       0       0       2      0      0     0       0   63 MCS12
      35       60       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   64 MCS12
      32       57       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   63 MCS12
      29       52       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   61 MCS12
      17       31       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   62   36M
      33       53       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   63   18M
      30       50       0       0       2      0      0     0       0   64   36M
      31       50       0       0       2      0      0     0       0   63   36M
      28       50       0       0       4      0      0     0       0   62   36M
      29       52       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   62   36M
      29       52       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   62   36M
      37       55       0       0       2      0      0     0       0   56 MCS11
      30       54       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   60   36M
      31       53       0       0       4      0      0     0       0   60   36M
      36       55       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   63   36M
   input   output altrate   short    long xretry crcerr crypt  phyerr rssi  rate
  609586  1088075      74       0   30923   2610   2749     0       0   54   36M
      30       53       0       0       2      0      0     0       0   56   24M
      34       56       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   51   36M
      33       54       0       0      25      5      0     0       0   64   36M
      32       53       0       0       2      0      0     0       0   54   36M
      35       52       0       0       4      0      0     0       0   59 MCS15
      30       50       0       0       2      0      0     0       0   60 MCS15
      30       54       0       0       5      0      0     0       0   53 MCS15
      34       55       0       0       3      0      0     0       0   63 MCS15
     518      981       0       0      11      0      0     0       0   44 MCS15
    1398     2659       1       0      29      0      0     0       0   20 MCS15
    3051     5716       1       0      64      0      2     0       0   24 MCS15
     661     1210       1       0      43      3      0     0       0   27 MCS15
     563     1024       0       0     128     11      0     0       0   32 MCS15
      25       39       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   38 MCS12
       5       10       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   47   36M
       7       10       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   49 MCS12
       8        6       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   56 MCS11
      63       26       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   44 MCS11
    1586     3000       0       0      37      0      0     0       0   20 MCS12
    2210     4150       0       0      61      0      0     0       0   15 MCS12
   input   output altrate   short    long xretry crcerr crypt  phyerr rssi  rate
  622148  1111497      78       0   31400   2629   2751     0       0   22 MCS12
    2203     4145       0       0      63      2      0     0       0   23 MCS12
    2144     4022       0       0      64      2      0     0       0   23 MCS12
    2222     4169       0       0      45      0      0     0       0   18 MCS12
    2270     4245       0       0      45      0      0     0       0   27 MCS12
    2227     4150       0       0      62      0      0     0       0   25 MCS12
    2200     4120       0       0      56      0      0     0       0   27 MCS12
    2189     4122       0       0      59      0      0     0       0   21 MCS12
    2195     4136       0       0      57      0      0     0       0   24 MCS12
    2205     4146       0       0      55      0      0     0       0   23 MCS12
    2225     4187       0       0      63      0      2     0       0   31 MCS12
    2192     4114       0       0      48      0      0     0       0   26 MCS12
    2206     4150       0       0      47      0      1     0       0   30 MCS12


Transfer abortion:
    1551     2931       1       0      58      1      4     0       0   28 MCS12
    1657     3111       0       0      29      0      0     0       0   29 MCS12
    1361     2576       0       0      19      0      0     0       0   30 MCS12
    1564     2962       0       0      24      0      0     0       0   31 MCS12
   input   output altrate   short    long xretry crcerr crypt  phyerr rssi  rate
  840750  1522646      89       0   36373   2664   2834     0       0   21 MCS12
    1623     3030       0       0      38      0      0     0       0   30 MCS12
    1497     2827       0       0      37      0      5     0       0   42 MCS12
    1450     2749       0       0      31      0      0     0       0   36 MCS12
    1381     2576       1       0      41      1      0     0       0
 28 MCS12 <-- stop transfer, pings still are ok
     119      201       0       0      11      1      0     0       0   47    1M
      10        9       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   53   54M
       5        4       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   56   54M
      21       18       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   59 MCS15
       5        3       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   58   54M
       6        4       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   59   54M
      13       13       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   54   54M
       8        8       0       0       8      2      0     0       0   56   54M
       3        3       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   57   54M
       5        5       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   58   54M
       8        7       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   59   54M
       8        6       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   60   54M
       3        3       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   60   54M
       6        6       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   60 MCS15
       3        3       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   61   54M
       7        7       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   62   54M
   input   output altrate   short    long xretry crcerr crypt  phyerr rssi  rate
  846937  1534134      90       0   36542   2668   2839     0       0   62 MCS15
       5        5       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   62 MCS15
       6        5       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   62 MCS15
       6        6       0       0       0      0      0     0       0
 62 MCS12 <-- ping triangles start
       7        6       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   62 MCS15
       6        9       0       0       1      0      0     0       0   66 MCS12
      11        8       0       0       0      0      0     0       0   62   48M



-- 
Boris Lytochkin


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