Re: 2.5.XX very sluggish

From: Doug McNaught (doug@mcnaught.org)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 11:45:00 EST


Chris Morgan <cmorgan@alum.wpi.edu> writes:

> 1.4Ghz Athlon via 82cxx chipset, software raid 1 scsi drives, currently
> running 2.4.21
>
> With 2.5.73/74/75(the only ones I've tried thus far) the kernel boots fine
> until it tries to mount the reiserfs partition on the raid1 set. Replaying
> the journal takes many times longer than with 2.4. Once it gets past that
> point the whole machine appears to be quite sluggish. Is this a known issue
> with reiserfs + software raid 1? What information would be useful to aid in
> debugging?

What does 'hdparm' say about DMA settings on your drive under 2.5?

-Doug
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