Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272485AbTHFWC6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 18:02:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272578AbTHFWC6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 18:02:58 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:2972 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272485AbTHFWC4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 18:02:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:04:34 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Michael Buesch Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6] system is very slow during disk access Message-Id: <20030806150434.53c4fa8c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200308062129.47113.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> References: <200308062052.10752.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> <200308062129.47113.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 20 Michael Buesch wrote: > > I just tried to run the test-scenario on my other Linux-installation > on this machine with kernel 2.4.10 and there the output of the program > was quite smooth, even it dd was running und the system was still usable. Please boot the 2.6 machine with "profile=1" on the kernel boot command line. start the `dd', do a `readprofile -r', wait ten seconds, do readprofile -m /wherever/System.map then post the results. Thanks. - 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/