2004-01-25 15:33:55

by Jaakko Helminen

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Subject: More on i/o wait problems ->


I switched back to 2.6.0 and it works like a charm, 10,8MBps over 100M LAN
with http. Something's definitely broken in 2.6.1.

-Jaakko Helminen


2004-01-25 16:15:54

by Martin Josefsson

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Subject: Re: More on i/o wait problems ->

On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 16:33, Jaakko Helminen wrote:
> I switched back to 2.6.0 and it works like a charm, 10,8MBps over 100M LAN
> with http. Something's definitely broken in 2.6.1.

Yes a hardly tested readahead patch somehow got integrated.
I/O sucks bigtime in 2.6.1
Try the latest -mm or -bk kernels, it should be fixed there.

--
/Martin


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