Re: 2.6 kernel being less responsive than 2.4

From: Caoilte O'Connor (me_at_caoilte.org)
Date: 03/31/04

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    To: Olle Eriksson <pt00oer@student.bth.se>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:04:22 +0200

    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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