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. :)
>
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