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Subject: Re: idle=poll needed??
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Reed, Timothy A" <timothy.a.reed@lmco.com>
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On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 12:51, Reed, Timothy A wrote:
> 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.

It actually depends on what you are doing whether it has any impact.
Also of course if power use is a consideration

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