Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Yep. I didn't notice this until I started updating my local
> > repository to sync to the last few 2.3.99 prepatches, and I am finding
> > that a large P4 operation (which hits the disk a lot, much like "cvs
> > import") takes several times longer than it did under 2.2.14.
>
> IDE or SCSI.
PIIX4 IDE. IDE options should be in the .config from the first message.
> Also how much memory do you have
128 MB
Not much of substance is running. Various daemons, KDE, Netscape, and
several kconsoles. Occasionally a NetHack process :)
> and is the maching paging
> or showing different vm behaviour (if you cant tell subjectively look for
> differences in vmstat 5 output during the operation)
hmmm. it does seem to be paging more, from first glance. I'll report
back with better info, since the behavior is easily reproducible.
Jeff
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