Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 07:45:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 07:45:17 -0500 Received: from mailgw3a.lmco.com ([192.35.35.7]:5389 "EHLO mailgw3a.lmco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 07:45:16 -0500 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 07:51:38 -0500 From: "Reed, Timothy A" Subject: idle=poll needed?? To: "Linux Kernel ML (E-mail)" Message-id: <9EFD49E2FB59D411AABA0008C7E675C00DCDFC48@emss04m10.ems.lmco.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 731 Lines: 20 All, We currently have setup, Dual P4-Xeon 2.2G machines running 2.4.19, with 2GB of RAM. Is there any performance reasons to keep the idle=poll in the append line? I have not seen any degraded performance with the option, but some of our subs are having performance issues with it in. TIA, Timothy Reed Software Engineer \ Systems Administrator Lockheed Martin - NE & SS Syracuse Email: timothy.a.reed@lmco.com The Box Said "Requires Windows 95 or Better", so I installed Linux! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/