Re: severe I/O performance issues on 2.4.22 SMP system
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 07:38, Daniel Erat wrote:
> The server has a SuperMicro Super P4DP6 motherboard with dual Xeon
> 2.4Ghz processors and 4 GB of RAM. One of the two onboard Adaptec 7899P
> SCSI chipsets is being used to control a disk that has the OS, and a
My experience is that the kernel.org kernel performs very badly under heavy
disk IO when you have 4G of RAM. There are patches to fix this, I can't
remember which ones they are (and I couldn't find the patches on their own
when I looked).
I solved this before by using a SUSE kernel source tree, but a Red Hat kernel
source tree has the same patches.
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