Re: 2.6 kernel being less responsive than 2.4
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:25, Caoilte O'Connor wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been upgraded to the 2.6 kernel a little while now, but
> I must not have things configured properly because the
> performance I get is terrible.
>
> Whenever I'm doing something CPU intensive my mouse becomes
> unresponsive, my mp3 player skips constantly and the like.
> This didn't used to happen for me under 2.4 so I'm
> wondering if it's possible i've done something very wrong.
I experienced the same thing when I switched from 2.4 to 2.6 and it
drove me crazy until I remembered what it could be. It turned out DMA
was not activated on the disks. Could that be it in your case?
See with "hdparm /dev/hdxx".
Olle
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