Re: 2.0.x Disk Performance Problem - Solved

Peter T. Breuer (ptb@it.uc3m.es)
Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:49:43 +0100 (MET)

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"A month of sundays ago Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:"
>
> It turns out this performance problem was inadvertently introduced by a
> correction made to fs/buffer.c in the 2.0.21 patch. The addition of a missing
> "++nr_buffers_size[isize];" revealed a latent problem in the load average

Your patch applies just fine to my 2.0.0 source. Explanations? :-)

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