I still wouldn't use the 2.2 kernel. The VM and filesystem caching have been totally revamped in the 2.4 kernels. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Carlson" <natecars at real-time.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Poor performance of AMD 1 Ghz? > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > Most of the 1 GHz Athlons use the VIA chipset. You do NOT get proper > > performance from the 2.2.19 kernel on the VIA chipsets, as you can not get > > UDMA66/100 to enable properly. On the 2.4 kernel it appears to work > > flawlessly. Definitely, you can expect disk I/O performance problems using > > the 2.2.19 kernel with just about any Athlon system. > > > > This is ALL assuming IDE of course. Since the original poster did not > > specify, it is fairly safe to assume such. Somebody with SCSI and/or RAID > > would usually know to say so. > > dpt_i2o raid controller (adaptec 2100s).. bob forgot to mention it. :) > > -- > Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >