Re: The time has come (part II) ...

["Jules Bean" <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

--On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 4:51 pm -0500 "Ben Collins" <bmc@visi.net> wrote: 

> On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 10:08:11PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote:
>> 
>> About kernel, I will release the next bootdisks with 2.0.35.  Is it
enough
>> reliable for *all* sparc workstations, or should I switch to 2.1 ?
> 
> The 2.0.x kernels suffer performance wise on the sun4c's i have used them
> on. For example it took about an hour for them to run mke2fs on my 2 gig
> drive, while the 2.1 kernels went at it in about 15 minutes (or less).
> 
> 2.0.35 works well on sun4m's tho.

Oh.  So *that's* the famous sun4c slowdown.

I noticed that too, when I installed my machine.  I just assumed that my
disks were slow :-)

I've never really noticed the slowdown when the machine's in use, but I use
it very lightly.

Jules

P.S. I keep trimming this thread to -sparc - it's not really relevant to
-devel.

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