Re: SATA in 2.6.17 vs 2.6.15 (x86/ICH6)

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 14:41 -0400, William Thompson wrote:
> *** I'm not on the list, please always keep me in CC ***
> 
> The speed of SATA in 2.6.17 is significantly lower in my test than 2.6.15.
> 
> In .15, I would see over 10mb/sec avg writing over 16,000 files (~2.4gb) to a
> fat32 partition.
> 
> In .17, I see it start at 2-3mb/sec and work it's way down to 500kb/sec
> towards the end.  Even the system is not as responsive (The system's / is a
> tmpfs which all programs, including /usr, are stored), not even when using
> ssh.
> 
> I used the same .config in .17 as I did with .15 (make oldconfig)

What does the oprofile output look like for both cases?

Lee

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/