Re: 2.2.15pre5, IDE and Athlon problem(s)

From: Mark Hahn (hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 11:21:50 EST


> > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/1 bs=1024k &
> >
> > which is the moral equivalent to a fork-bomb: it generates an overwhelming
> > stream of requests to the same region of disk.
>
> Ehm, a simple mkisofs does a similar thing...

no: mkisofs is copying, and thus throttled.

> I've installed Andrea's "elevator-starvation-2" patch, and was fine.
> Interactive response is much better, apparently without performance losses.

benchmarks?

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