Ethtool; Rhea-2009:1408: Enhancement Update; Evince; Rhba-2009:1404: Bug Fix Update - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.4 - TECHNICAL NOTES Manual

Chapter 1. Package Updates
Users of esc are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues.

1.49. ethtool

1.49.1. RHEA-2009:1408: enhancement update

An enhanced ethtool package that adds support for GRO options is now available.
Ethtool allows querying and changing of ethernet card settings, such as speed, port, autonegotiation,
and PCI locations.
This updated package adds the following enhancement:
• generic receive offload (GRO) has been added to some network drivers in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.4. GRO aggregates packets before they're processed by the rest of the stack. This allows
TCP performance to be greatly enhanced at high speeds. In particular, it's crucial for good 10GbE
performance. With GRO enabled, you should observe higher throughput, lower CPU utilization of
network traffic, or both; especially with smaller message sizes.
The kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 allows users to manually control whether GRO is
enabled for supported ethernet adapters. This updated ethtool provides a command-line interface --
"ethtool -k" -- for setting and querying that flag.
All ethtool users should upgrade to this updated package which adds this capability.

1.50. evince

1.50.1. RHBA-2009:1404: bug fix update

An updated evince package that fixes a printing bug is now available.
evince is a GNOME-based document viewer.
This update fixes a flaw in evince versions prior to 0.6.0-8 discovered by Jonathan Peatfield:
• when printing "n" copies of a non-postscript document, "n times n" copies were printed instead.
(That is, if two copies were requested, four copies -- 2 x 2 -- were printed.) This flaw has been
corrected. Note: the underlying cause of this problem also influenced collated printing, reversed
printing and printing of sets of pages.
All Evince users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues.

1.51. evolution

1.51.1. RHBA-2009:1260: bug fix update

Updated evolution packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.
Evolution is the GNOME collection of personal information management (PIM) tools.
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