Re: severe I/O performance issues on 2.4.22 SMP system
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:33, Daniel Erat wrote:
> > I solved this before by using a SUSE kernel source tree, but a Red Hat
> > kernel source tree has the same patches.
>
> Thanks! I'm hesistant to switch to the SUSE or Red Hat source trees
> because of the large number of changes there. If I just want to work
> around the problem so I can finally get some sleep, do you know if I can
> pull a gig of memory out of the machine, or will I need to instead or
> additionally recompile the kernel without 4 GB High Memory Support? In
I am not sure what exactly needs to be done, I was not in a position to do
much testing. I suspect that you need to recompile without high-mem support.
The Red Hat kernel is quite good, Rik van Riel, Arjan, Alan Cox, Ingo Molnar,
and others are working on it.
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