Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:26:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:26:10 -0500 Received: from 24-240-35-67.hsacorp.net ([24.240.35.67]:1152 "HELO majere.epithna.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:26:04 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 15:21:12 -0500 (EST) From: To: Martin Eriksson Cc: Subject: Re: IDE is still crap.. or something In-Reply-To: <014a01c17456$504197d0$0201a8c0@HOMER> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Just as an FYI...I am not seeing this on my ht366...runs nice and speedy... On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Martin Eriksson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Eriksson" > To: > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 8:11 PM > Subject: IDE is still crap.. or something > > > > Well, just wanted to tell you that 2.4.15 still slows down to a crawl when > > copying a 500MB file between two hard drives (running ext3). I have tried > > any of the -c -u -m -W settings in hdparm. I even applied the 2.4.14 IDE > > patch (after fixing the rejects) but no go. > > > > Even iptables is affected, because it takes forever to surf the internet > > from my behind-linux-firewall windows computer. > > > > I'm right now trying to apply the preemptive-kernel patch to 2.4.15 but it > > had some strange rejects so it will be exciting to see if it works. I get > > good response from the -ac kernel series though. > > I applied the ide patch and the preemptive-kernel patch, and so far so good. > Response is up again, but I'm not sure how well I fixed the .rej files. > There were some reference to a "still_running" label that I simply > ignored... *shrug* > > Btw, i run my (pretty slow) hard disks on my BP6 HPT366 controller. > > _____________________________________________________ > | Martin Eriksson > | MSc CSE student, department of Computing Science > | Ume? University, Sweden > > > - > 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/ > - 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/