Re: 2.1.92 does less disk buffering, and crashes on Compaq 6000

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Sun, 5 Apr 1998 12:43:58 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, David C Niemi wrote:

>
>The 2.1.92 kernel seems noticeably slower at medium and large-block I/O
>compared to previous kernels. It also goes unusually slowly when printing
>bootup messages, as if everything is now being written synchronously or

Apply this:

--- linux/drivers/char/console.c~ Tue Mar 31 21:00:09 1998
+++ linux/drivers/char/console.c Tue Mar 31 22:11:24 1998
@@ -207 +207 @@
-#define CONFIG_SERIAL_ECHO
+#undef CONFIG_SERIAL_ECHO

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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