Re: APM killing low-latency performance on BX mainboard (we need a method to disable it dynamically)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:57:01 +0000 (GMT)

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> for example "tune for realtime performance"
> turns APM off and turns on DMA / unmaskirq /32bit access
> on all EIDE device.

At which point you just corrupted the hard disk on my old 486. Some things
unfortunately really cannot be let loose like that.

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