Re: 2.1.114 VFS code 5x slower than 2.0.33?!?

Zlatko Calusic (Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr)
09 Aug 1998 00:20:07 +0200


Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes:

> One possible reason for the slowdown on your side: if you're using
> IDE note that DMA defaults to off now, which slows down a lot of things.
> I did my tests with a SCSI system.
>

I'm forcing DMA on my disk. It would run two times slower without
that. So results are correct and in the same environment.

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