On 2000-08-14 10:22:46 +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> 2.2.17pre16 however detects them as Mobile Pentium II's with no cache.
> Not surprisingly, performance now bites.
And of course, switching external cache back on in the BIOS fixes this.
Sorry for the missteak.
> As as aside, its also missing Marcelo Tosatti's fix for
> sync_page_buffers() which is quite old and I'm surprised it hasn't been
> added yet. Without this, especially on an SMP system the CPU load goes
> nuts constantly for no apparent reason.
Oh, and I should mention it also fixes the problem of the interactive
performance going out the window for quite a while under heavy I/O load
(eg, copying untarred kernel source tree to backup) Not sure how bad
this affects rich folks with SCSI systems, but it sucks large rocks for
us poor bastards with IDE (even with UDMA/33).
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