Resolution to UDMA performance issues on 2.0.36

Victor Orlikowski (vjo@duke.edu)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:49:04 -0400 (EDT)


<idiot mode>
Victor's Law:
*Never* run cpu-intensive tasks whilst benchmarking IDE drives.
</idiot mode>

cpu-intensive tasks == rc5des client.
:)
It swallowed *HALF* the UDMA drive performance marks on hdparm -Tt for my
UDMA drive.

Now in normal figures (I thought I wasn't crazy). Sheesh. Must remember I
have that thing running there......

Victor

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