Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)
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Rich Johnson wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2006, at 4:38 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>>
>> Better support for h/w. (For example, you may want to install
>> a SATA card in your machine. I don't know how well 2.4
>> supports SATA.)
>>
>> The 2.6 kernel is where all new features like "more efficient
>> ext3" are released.
>>
>> Even if 2.4 does everything you need/want, still, upgrade to
>> 2.4.32 and go to .33 when it is released soon.
>>
>
> Yeah, I know all that.
>
> No amount of fiddling with hdparm helped when running 2.4 so I
> think the problem lies elsewhere. On 2.4 Memtest runs a complete
> cycle in ~2400 secs. No errors other than the initial probes
> are reported.
>
> Anyway, the problem goes away with a 2.6 kernel. This is with no
> changes to BIOS or any of the package configurations. This
> gives _me_ an acceptable solution....for now.
What do you mean "for now"?
> ... there are those nagging doubts. Surely I'm not the only one
> who's seen such behavior. From a community perspective it's
> troubling to see a basic, no-frills, stable installation on a
> name-brand machine produce such horrible results.
Maybe NCR changed at some point, but I do know that they were always
hot for *highly* customized systems. "Added value", it's called.
The fact that the 2.6 kernel fixes it strongly suggests to me that
the PG350 *is* such an oddball, where a work-around was only put
into 2.6.
> It's shaken
> my confidence that the problem will not reappear at the most
> inopportune time.
Oh, puh-leeze. Mobo, chipset and card makers all do some pretty
weird shit, and it's not easy for Linux to handle every combination
of custom chipsets.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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