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Bug#866314: linux-image-4.9.0-3-686-pae: 100+ times slower disk writes on 4.x+/i386/16+RAM, compared to 3.x



On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 19:53 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> package: linux-image-4.9.0-3-686-pae
> version: 4.9.30-2+deb9u2
> # severity: important ?

I would say only 'normal', because this isn't a sensible configuration.

[...]
> We want to run half of our i386 build nodes with a 32 bit kernel and the other
> half with an 64 bit kernel to test reproducibility under this variation, so
> I'm really looking forward to see this bug fixed soon. Other people can
> probably just keep running the amd64 kernel, thus I've decided for normal 
> severity for this issue.

Why don't you assign a smaller amount of RAM to the 32-bit VMs?  Are
there packages that need this much to build?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer

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