Re: I/O request ordering

Harald Koenig (koenig@ceres.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Tue, 6 Aug 1996 18:56:52 +0200 (MES)

> > (Kernel compile times are probably not good indications of disk ordering
> > performance, at least not if you have enough memory. I see 90% CPU use for
> > them most of the time).
>
> I agree.
>
> Doing a "time make zImage" some while ago on the same computer with
> two *really* different hard drive (a SCSI seagate ST31200N on
> ncr53c810 and a IDE ATA2 seagate <I DONT REMEMBER WHAT> on a 82371FX
> (triton I)) shows me exactly the same elapsed time, on both in the
> same second.

well, try this again with "mem=4M" as boot parameter ;-)

Harald

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