Re: 2.6 kernel being less responsive than 2.4
On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:36, Olle Eriksson wrote:
> 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".
OH! That was it. Thankyou. I've a VIA chipset and somehow
the configuration option name had changed between 2.4 and
2.6. I'm compiling support in again now.
Thanks very much, I can't believe I mindblanked that being
it.
c
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